Francesco Barsanti - Adagio in d, on spinet

Francesco Barsanti - Adagio in d
played on replica 1753 Jean Claude Goujon spinet
temperament: Werckmeister III
pitch: A 415
audio track recorded on Ipod Touch 3G with the Blue Mikey Microphone and Fourtrack App

Francesco Barsanti (1690--1772) was an Italian composer. He was born in the Tuscan city of Lucca, but spent most of his career in London.

When he was young, he was sent to Padova where he should study Science, but he fell in love with music and decided to study it, becoming a good oboe and flute player.

In 1714 he moved to London, where he played the flute and the oboe in the orchestra of the Italian Opera Theatre.

In 1735 Barsanti went to Scotland, where he married a Scottish woman, and where he could rely on the aristocratic support, that allowed him to publish his best works.

Then he came back to London, but he had lost all his previous contacts, so he had to accept some works as a viola player for the orchestras of the Londoners theatres. He died in 1772 under strange circumstances, when he was already poor.

Barsanti is one of the many extraordinary Italian instrumentalists - virtuosi and composers - who travelled through Europe all along the eighteenth century, and contributed to the definitive achievement of instrumental music.

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