Giovanni Battista Viotti
Tre quartetti per flauto, violino, viola e violoncello op. 22
(WII: 16-18)
edited by Mariateresa Dellaborra and Claudio Paradiso

(Instrumental Music, 18)
XXVI, 102 pp.; 21 x 29 cm
Intro and Apparatus in Italian and English

Viotti’s Op. 22 is his only collection expressly conceived for flute and string trio. Probably dated by 1806, and dedicated to his amateur flautist friend, Philip Cipriani, it partakes of the rich period production for such outfit, including contributions not only by Mozart and Haydn, but also by J. Ch. Bach, Stamitz, Wendling, Devienne, Pleyel, Boccherini, Cambini, Campagnoli, Cimarosa, Paisiello, Sammartini, Rolla, and Rossini—a glimpse on the pleasures of home-made musical entertainment. All quartets are in three movements; individual parts are not too demanding but their overall effect is nice and pleasant throughout.

Claudio Paradiso. Flautist-conductor, researches and performs 18th- and 19th-century Italian instrumental music. He founded the chamber orchestra, “I Fiati di Parma” and has been conducting it since 1990. He conceived the DMI (Dictionary of Music in Italy) and is curator of the associated Archivio dei Musicisti Italiani, Latina. He recorded for Amadeus, EdiPan, Editions De Santis, EMI-Academie de Musique de Sion, Classic Voice, All India Radio, Channel 5, Radio de la Suisse Romande, RAI RadioTre, Vatican Radio, Süddeutsche Rundfunk, and EBU (European Broadcasting Union); also, he edited many works for/with winds by Italian composers (Belloli, Bolzoni, Carulli, Cavallini, Cimarosa, Codivilla, de Giovanni, Diana, Dotti, Druzecky, Gariboldi, Giorgetti, Hugues, Lippolis, Lovreglio, Mabellini, Mancinelli, Margola , Mercadante, F. Morlacchi, P. Morlacchi, Pagani, Petrini Zamboni, Pugni, Reicha, Romanino, Rossini, Ruge, Sangiorgi, Savi, Scontrino, Sivori, Tadolini, Taveggia, Toja, Viotti). He also edited several essay collections, such as those on Hugues, Iori, Giorgetti, Mabellini. His book on the Collegium Musicum Italicum / I Virtuosi di Roma ensemble is in preparation.