Canon à due violoncelli

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Domenico Gabrielli was an Italian Baroque composer and virtuoso cello player. He was apparently not related to the Venetian Gabrielis. Born in Bologna, he worked in the orchestra of the church of San Petronio and was also a member and for some time president (principe) of the Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna. During the 1680s he also worked as a musician at the court of Duke Francesco II d’Este of Modena. Gabrielli wrote several operas as well as instrumental and vocal church works. He is especially notable as the composer of some of the earliest attested works for solo cello (two sonatas for cello and basso continuo, a group of seven ricercari for unaccompanied cello, and a canon for two cellos). Among his contemporaries, his own virtuoso performances on this instrument earned him the nickname Mingain (or Minghino) dal viulunzeel, a dialect form meaning “Dominic of the cello.” He lived from April 15, 1651, or October 19, 1659, to July 10, 1690.—Excerpted from Wikipedia

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Selected Recordings

2 Sonatas for Violoncello and bc

Ricercar No. 7

Ricercar per il violoncello

Selected Sheet Music

Canon à due violoncelli

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Showcase Piece

Ricercar lll

Notes and Commentary

Domenico Gabrielli was an Italian Baroque composer and virtuoso cello player. He was apparently not related to the Venetian Gabrielis. Born in Bologna, he worked in the orchestra of the church of San Petronio and was also a member and for some time president (principe) of the Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna. During the 1680s he also worked as a musician at the court of Duke Francesco II d’Este of Modena. Gabrielli wrote several operas as well as instrumental and vocal church works. He is especially notable as the composer of some of the earliest attested works for solo cello (two sonatas for cello and basso continuo, a group of seven ricercari for unaccompanied cello, and a canon for two cellos). Among his contemporaries, his own virtuoso performances on this instrument earned him the nickname Mingain (or Minghino) dal viulunzeel, a dialect form meaning “Dominic of the cello.” He lived from April 15, 1651, or October 19, 1659, to July 10, 1690.—Excerpted from Wikipedia

Books and Music

Selected Books
Gabrielli: 7 Ricercari
Schott Edition
$28.48 on Amazon

Le composizioni per Violoncello
$18.00 on Amazon
Musedita, 2006
Alessandro Bares (ed.)

Selected Music
S. Sigismondo re de Borgogna (2008), 1 CD

La Nascita del Violoncello (2012), 1 CD

Complete Cello Works (2012), 1 CD

More Domenico Gabrielli music

Complete Works

Balletti, Op.1
Cello Sonata No.1
Poi che ad Irene
Ricercari, canone e sonate per violoncello
Trumpet Sonata No.1-6 in D major

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