Gran Fantasia

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• Description +

  • Arranged by Gian-Luca Petrucci
    Duration: 7 min.
    
    Pietro Morlacchi (1828-1868), flutist and composer, was born in Lainate (Milan). He studied flute at the Conservatory of Music in Milan under the guidance of Giuseppe Rabboni, from 1843 to 1850. While yet a student, in 1850, he composed and published the Fantasia originale for flute and piano Il Pastore Svizzero, published also in a version for solo piano. Other compositions include Capriccio op. 4; Fantasia sull’opera Mosè di Rossini for flute and piano; Polka “Aosta Cavalleria” for piano; a Duetto concertante for flute, bassoon and piano on themes of Verdi’s operas, composed in collaboration with the bassoonist Alberto Torriani; a Capriccio for solo flute based on a didactic study by Ernesto Cavallini (1807-1874). Il Pastore Svizzero for flute and piano, his most famous composition, is often incorrectly attributed to Francesco Morlacchi (1784-1841), born in Perugia, opera composer very famous at his time. As we can easily deduce, it’s not possible to mistake the two composers, for their different artistic interests, and for the gap of 44 years that divides their respective birth. Moreover, when this composition was published, Francesco Morlacchi had already died nine years before.

• Instrumentation +

  • Flute and Piano

• About the composer +

  • Pietro Morlacchi (1828-1868), flutist and composer, was born in Lainate (Milan). He studied flute at the Conservatory of Music in Milan under the guidance of Giuseppe Rabboni, from 1843 to 1850. While yet a student, in 1850, he composed and published the Fantasia originale for flute and piano Il Pastore Svizzero, published also in a version for solo piano. Other compositions include Capriccio op. 4; Fantasia sull’opera Mosè di Rossini for flute and piano; Polka “Aosta Cavalleria” for piano; a Duetto concertante for flute, bassoon and piano on themes of Verdi’s operas, composed in collaboration with the bassoonist Alberto Torriani; a Capriccio for solo flute based on a didactic study by Ernesto Cavallini (1807-1874). Il Pastore Svizzero for flute and piano, his most famous composition, is often incorrectly attributed to Francesco Morlacchi (1784-1841), born in Perugia, opera composer very famous at his time. As we can easily deduce, it’s not possible to mistake the two composers, for their different artistic interests, and for the gap of 44 years that divides their respective birth. Moreover, when this composition was published, Francesco Morlacchi had already died nine years before.

• Credits +

  • Front Cover: Gioacchino Rossini 
    Cover Graphics and Layout: Ronni Kot Wenzell
    Editor: Ginevra Petrucci
    Piano revision: Paola Pisa
    Engraving: Paola Pisa
    Printed in Copenhagen, Denmark
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