Troisème Livre de Sonatas a Violon Seul et Basse Dédiées a Madame Isabelle Comteße de Carlisle ... Oeuvre V. Prix 6₶.
Paris: aux Adreßes Ordinaires de Musique avec Aprobation et Privilege du Roy, [1758].
Folio. Loose in contemporary stiff marbled wrappers with heart-shape blank paper label to upper. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (catalogue), 2-22, [i] (blank), 24-33, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved.
Wrappers and endpapers worn, frayed, and with minor worming. Slightly worn and soiled; occasional small tears and worming, mainly to blank margins but heavier to upper portions of final leaves, affecting notation; title leaf frayed, with small loss to blank outer margin and minor worming, soiling, and dampstaining; dampstaining to upper outer corners through p. 10.
First Edition. Lesure p. 231. RISM G1914 and GG1914 (2 copies only in the U.S., at NYPL Lincoln Center and the Library of Congress).
Giardini was a French-born Italian composer and violinist. "He showed an early talent for the violin, but his father sent him to Milan as a cathedral chorister, and to study singing, composition and harpsichord with Paladini. He returned to Turin to study violin with G.B. (not Lorenzo) Somis, and while still a youth joined an opera orchestra in Rome. Soon after, he moved to the Teatro S Carlo in Naples, and quickly advanced from the back desks to the position of deputy leader. ... Despite the appearance of a serious rival in Wilhelm Cramer, who made his London début in 1773, and later competition from Salomon, Giardini maintained his position as a player; Burney called him ‘the greatest performer in Europe’. He took part in the Bach-Abel concerts (sometimes playing the viola), and also appeared in the provinces, taking charge of the orchestra for the Three Choirs Festival from 1770 to 1776. He was in great demand as a teacher and held important morning concerts for his violin, singing and harpsichord pupils in his house." Christopher Hogwood and Simon McVeigh in Grove Music Online.
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