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Following the 'rediscovery' and first publication of Giuseppe Cambini's wonderful 110 quintets for
two violins, viola and two violoncellos, there is increasing awareness of this great master's
instrumental output. While his quintets are on a par with Luigi Boccherini's 93 identically scored string quintets, even surpassing them by their richer 'affecting' melodies, 'brilliant, even raw harmonies and surprising modulations', all 'sweetened by a lovely tenderness and a gentle grace', the time has come for new editions of Cambini's string quartet and string trio output.
The astonishingly large number of quartets and trios contains pearls of intimate music making;
their inventiveness and instrumental balance far surpass the works of his contemporaries.
Cambini contributed 36 works to the string trio combination of violin, viola and violoncello.
In accordance with the first print of 1770, we now present his Opus II, titled:
TROIS / TRIOS / Concertants / Pour Violon, Alto Et Violoncelle / Composés / Par / G.CAMBINI / OEuvre
II / A / MANNHEIM / chez Le S.r Götz et Editeur de Musique / No 91 [Pl.-Nr.] / all.o [Incipit] A. P.
Prix 1fl: 36 Kr. Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini was probably born in Livorno on 13 February 1746 and died in Paris on 29 December 1825 as a 'good pauper'.
He is considered one of the greatest originators of the Symphonie concertante and of the concertante string quartet. They are prime examples of the lofty art of entertaining music with its attendant mastery of virtuoso or expressive singing in performance so appreciated in Paris between 1770 and 1780. His monumental output is amazing: the vocal music comprises nine scenic works (operas and ballets), two oratorios, 6 masses, motets, cantatas, concert scenes and arias; his orchestral works feature 12 pieces inspired by the revolution (hymns and odes), 80 concertante symphonies, 3 violin concerti, a viola concerto in D major (first published in 1988 by Amadeus), 7 concerti for flute, one for
oboe and 3 for piano.
His chamber music oeuvre is bewilderingly large: apart from the 110
afore-mentioned string quintets, he wrote some 30 flute quintets, 3 wind quintets, 156 string quartets,
18 flute quartets, 145 variously scored string trios, over 40 trios fore flute and strings, six trios for flute, oboe and bassoon, as well as 200 duets.
The wealth of melodic and technically inventive ideas which, owing to the profusion of material then offered to performers and listeners, 'tolerated no repetition', is difficult to comprehend. As the Almanach Musical put it in 1781: 'Those who seek images, pictures, lively and animated expressions in instrumental music will find the quartets amply justify Cambini's reputation. We recognize in them the brilliant manner that charaterizes all his symphonies. It seems that the most pleasant ideas just run to his pen. No author is more varied than he.' This publication of his chamber music is an
attempt to do justice to his genius in our time.
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