In his teens, Gaetano was sponsored by Mayr in order to study for two years in Bologna with Padre Mattei, and his teachers began to hand over contracts to him by age twenty. The composer was born into poverty in Bergamo (occupied by the French and then the Austrians for Donizetti’s entire life), but he and his brothers were invited to attend the best free music school in Italy, run in Bergamo by Giovanni (Johann Simon) Mayr. The dating of the work is not clear,īut its general layout suggests that it belongs rather to the early Bergamo period Preserved in the Paris Bibliothèque Nationale (reg. Reconstructed by Johannes Wojciechowski for Edition Petersĭonizetti’s Concerto in D minor for violin, cello and chamber orchestra is derived from the autograph Solo violin, solo cello, 2 flutes, 2 trumpets, chamber stringsīergamo period, date of composition unknown
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