Pierre Gaviniès
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Gavini, son of a violin maker, was one of the most significant of the French school of violin in the eighteenth century. At the age of thirteen, he was already noticed alongside Joseph-Barnabé Saint-Sevin said the Rev. Son (1727–1803) in a duo of Jean-Marie Leclair
the Spiritual Concert. He was very young, the virtuoso of the most requested Paris but declined the offer of a position at the Chapel Royal. Young man, he was involved in a matter of manners with a noble lady of the Court, which earned him a sentence of one year in prison. During the 1760s he became an unprecedented success for his compositions, his concerts and as professor of violin.
He had a long and fruitful collaboration with the Spiritual Concert which took over the management from 1773 to 1777 with François-Joseph Gossec and Simon Leduc. During this period, he brought the symphony concert at its peak. Giovanni Battista Viotti
- badge recognition - saw in him the French Tartini.
He published his sonatas, following the ancient tradition, only with the lower figures, and these compositions represent the stylistic transition from late baroque
to classical.
In the years following the Revolution, from 1795, he was in the company of Pierre Rode
and Pierre Baillot
Rodolphe Kreutzer
a faculty violin conservatory newly created.
Jean-Marie Leclair
Jean-Marie Leclair l'aîné, also known as Jean-Marie Leclair the Elder, was a Baroque violinist and composer. He is considered to have founded the French violin school...
the Spiritual Concert. He was very young, the virtuoso of the most requested Paris but declined the offer of a position at the Chapel Royal. Young man, he was involved in a matter of manners with a noble lady of the Court, which earned him a sentence of one year in prison. During the 1760s he became an unprecedented success for his compositions, his concerts and as professor of violin.
He had a long and fruitful collaboration with the Spiritual Concert which took over the management from 1773 to 1777 with François-Joseph Gossec and Simon Leduc. During this period, he brought the symphony concert at its peak. Giovanni Battista Viotti
Giovanni Battista Viotti
Giovanni Battista Viotti was an Italian violinist whose virtuosity was famed and whose work as a composer featured a prominent violin and an appealing lyrical tunefulness...
- badge recognition - saw in him the French Tartini.
He published his sonatas, following the ancient tradition, only with the lower figures, and these compositions represent the stylistic transition from late baroque
Baroque
The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
to classical.
In the years following the Revolution, from 1795, he was in the company of Pierre Rode
Pierre Rode
Jacques Pierre Joseph Rode was a French violinist and composer.-Biography:Born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France, Pierre Rode traveled to Parisat the age of 13 and soon became a favourite pupil of the great Giovanni Battista Viotti who found the boy so talented that he charged him no fee for the...
and Pierre Baillot
Pierre Baillot
Pierre Marie François de Sales Baillot was a French violinist and composer.Baillot was born in Passy and studied the violin under Giovanni Battista Viotti...
Rodolphe Kreutzer
Rodolphe Kreutzer
Rodolphe Kreutzer was a German violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas.-Biography:...
a faculty violin conservatory newly created.
Works
- Opus 1 - 6 sonates for violon 1760
- The alleged interlude Komödie Italian comedy in 3 acts (première in Paris on 6 November 1760)
- Recueil d'airs à 3 parties for two violins, alto and basse continue 1763
- Opus 3 - 6 sonates for violon 1764
- Opus 4 - 6 sonates for violon 1764
- 2 Suites on Christmas 1764
- 3 sonates for violon solo (including Le Tombeau de Gaviniès) 1770
- Opus 5 - 6 sonates for violon 1774
- His most famous collection is "le recueil de Vingt-quatre Matinées", studies for the caprices of violin in 1794