The ÆOLIAN PLAYERS: JOSEPH SLATER (Flute) ; REBECCA CLARKE (Viola); ANTONIO BROSA
(Violin); GORDON BRYAN (Pianoforte)
Trio for Flute, Violin, and Pianoforte
Carl Stamitz (1746-1801)
Moderato; Andante moderato; Rondo
(First performance in England)
Largo ; Allegro; Adagio : Vivace
BQRN in Venice in 1667, Lotti produced his first opera there before he was sixteen.
Much of his life was spent in the service of the Church as organist and choirmaster, and he composed both sacred and secular music. He is held in hish esteem by musicians as the last representa tivo of the old formal school of church music, though in his own day he was counted as a 'modern,' for the freedom and grace of his harmony. Our English Dr. Burney, on his travels in Italy, was so touched by the beauty of Lotti's, choral music that, so he has told us, he was moved to tears.
On one occasion the Crown Prince of Saxony heard him in Venice, and invited him to the Court of Dresden, where he accordingly made a short stav, producing operatic music there. At the end of his leave of absence from Venice he made the return journey in a coach for which he always afterwards had a warm affection, bequeathing it to his widow when he died.