Vol. 9
20 pp. $12.95. Presser Order number 494-02821 (PWYS-87)
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The
guitar music of Ferdinando Carulli (1770-1841) is often associated with
didactical material and with a large number of editions destined for home music
making by amateurs. This small anthology of sonatas by Carulli comes from a
manuscript dated 1805, which was compiled for the personal use of one such
amateur, a certain Italian nobleman named Niccolò Mancini. This manuscript may
be an autograph, or it may be a compilation made by a copyist on order from
Signor Mancini, whoever he may have been. Not destined for commercial
distribution, the choice of music made by the compiler indicates that the
customer for whom they were copied was a fairly competent dilettante. The music
includes some of the better known formulaic clichés that Carulli often used.
At
the same time, we find here surprising sleight-of-hand that almost border on
virtuosity. Some of the music in this collection comes from known published
works by Carulli. Other pieces do not lend themselves to easy identification.
They may turn out to be part of other known works by Carulli, perhaps those
without opus number, or they may have to be considered as heretofore unknown and
undocumented works. This collection was evidently meant to provide the
dilettante customer with some hours of diletto — joy. It can provide
students and amateurs today with delightful miniatures in support of any
teaching program, private or public.
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