Gaetano Maria Schiassi () - Pastorale per il SSmo Natale (1737)

Buon compleanno Gaetano Maria Schiassi! 🎻🎁 Composer: Gaetano Maria Schiassi () Work: (Concerto in Re maggiore) Pastorale per il SSmo Natale, Op.1 (1737) Performers: Collegium Mаriаnum; Jana Sеmеrádová (conductor) Painting: North Italian School (17/18th Century) - Musical gathering () HD image: Further info: Listen free: No available --- Gaetano Maria (Francesco) Schiassi [Eschiassi, Stiassi] (Bologna, 10 March 1698 - Lisbon, 1754) Italian singer and composer. Son of Carl Antonio Schiassi and Catterina Minghetti, he was a member of the Accademia Filarmonica as a suonatore, and a violinist among the virtuosos at the ducal court of Alderano Cybo Malaspina, to whom he dedicated his Trattenimenti per camera in 1724. About three years later he was employed by the Landgrave of Darmstadt. From at least the end of 1734 he lived in Lisbon, where he served in the royal chapel and founded the Academia da Trindade. His letters from Lisbon to Padre Martini from 1735 to 1753 reveal his activities there as composer, teacher and singer. He was asked to compose oratorios based on texts by Metastasio, for which he enlisted Martini’s help in supplying fugues for the choruses. The letters also reveal several insights into performing practice and taste in 18th-century Lisbon, where the king refused to allow women to take roles in operas and prohibited all kinds of entertainment during his illness except for oratorios and church festivals. Schiassi’s works include sonatas, concertos, sinfonias and dances. His vocal music, other than the operas and oratorios, were most often set as pastorales.