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Sborgi: Sei sonate da cembalo, Op. 1

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Details

Composer
Gaetano Sborgi
Artist
Jacopo Sibilia
Format
CD
Label
Tactus
Released
May 15, 2026
Catalog #
TC761901
UPC
8007194108439

About

We do not know precisely the date of birth and death of Gaetano Sborgi, a composer who lived between the second half of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth. We can say with reasonable certainty that Sborgi was born in Florence, as in the frontispiece of his sonatas he states that he is Florentine. Sborgi was chapel master and piano-forte teacher at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. He studied with his brother (or father according to Picchianti) Gasparo and then moved to Naples in the Conservatory of S. Onofrio, where he had Marco Santucci as a companion and where he stayed for seventeen years. Back in Florence "he made himself known... with several of his theatrical pieces of real good taste, and in others of different kinds. He had three works of piano sonatas printed, which show his genius and talent". Six harpsichord sonatas dedicated to Lorenzo Niccolini, ciamberlano of Peter Leopold I and Ferdinand III, can be included in the context of those compositions that show the gradual transition from the traditional harpsichord with plucked strings to the new conception, piano et forte, with struck strings. Jacopo Sibilia uses a copy of a 1783 Stein fortepiano, which can be played with two different types of action, in order to make the performance more expressive and harmonious.

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro 06:55
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    06:55
    Composer
    Gaetano Sborgi
    Performer
    Jacopo Sibilia
  2. 2 II. Allegro moderato 05:32
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    05:32
    Composer
    Gaetano Sborgi
    Performer
    Jacopo Sibilia
  3. 3 I. Allegro 07:54
    Track
    3
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    07:54
    Composer
    Gaetano Sborgi
    Performer
    Jacopo Sibilia
  4. 4 II. Andante espressivo 02:40
    Track
    4
    Title
    II. Andante espressivo
    Duration
    02:40
    Composer
    Gaetano Sborgi
    Performer
    Jacopo Sibilia
  5. 5 I. Andante 06:19
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Andante
    Duration
    06:19
    Composer
    Gaetano Sborgi
    Performer
    Jacopo Sibilia
  6. 6 II. Rondo Andante 04:37
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Rondo Andante
    Duration
    04:37
    Composer
    Gaetano Sborgi
    Performer
    Jacopo Sibilia
  7. 7 I. Larghetto 03:30
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Larghetto
    Duration
    03:30
    Composer
    Gaetano Sborgi
    Performer
    Jacopo Sibilia
  8. 8 II. Rondo Andante 03:05
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Rondo Andante
    Duration
    03:05
    Composer
    Gaetano Sborgi
    Performer
    Jacopo Sibilia
  9. 9 I. Andantino 05:15
    Track
    9
    Title
    I. Andantino
    Duration
    05:15
    Composer
    Gaetano Sborgi
    Performer
    Jacopo Sibilia
  10. 10 II. Andante non tanto 02:56
    Track
    10
    Title
    II. Andante non tanto
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Gaetano Sborgi
    Performer
    Jacopo Sibilia
  11. 11 I. Allegro non tanto 05:52
    Track
    11
    Title
    I. Allegro non tanto
    Duration
    05:52
    Composer
    Gaetano Sborgi
    Performer
    Jacopo Sibilia
  12. 12 II. Minuè con variazioni 05:08
    Track
    12
    Title
    II. Minuè con variazioni
    Duration
    05:08
    Composer
    Gaetano Sborgi
    Performer
    Jacopo Sibilia