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CORRETTE – Concert ‘Le Phenix’ – FOUR CELLOS

Other Identification:
Corrette was a prolific composer, writing ballets and entertainments for the stage (including Arlequin , Armide , Le Jugement de Midas , Les Âges , Nina , and Persée). He composed many concertos, notably some 25 comic concertos.

Aside from these works and keyboard concertos, he also composed sonatas , songs, instrumental chamber works, harpsichord pieces, cantatas , and other sacred vocal works. Unfortunately, most of his sacred works have not survived, some exceptions being the Laudate Dominum and Four Masses for Two Voices from 1788.

Despite living well into the Classical era (he outlived Mozart by four years, dying in 1795 just a few months short of 88), Corrette’s musical idiom was very conservative, and he continued to compose in the Baroque style at least up to the 1770s.
Movements or sections:
This work is a concerto intended for four bassoons, or four cellos, or for four bass viols, and a basso continuo. It is a significant work from the 18th century, providing insights into contemporary light music and performing practices, with the original publication being the first of its kind for this instrumentation.

There are THREE movements:
1] – Allegro
2] – Adagio
3] – Allegro
Instrumentation: Offered here as a QUARTET FOR FOUR CELLOS Substantial parts of the writing have been transferred (by hand) to the cello reading clefs
3 PDFs:
1 – Cellos 1 and 2
2 – Cellos 3 and 4
3 – the original general score
Approximate difficulty:
Medium

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