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Gioachino Rossini's life is full of funny and original anecdots, first of all his birthdate: february 29! When he wrote the six "sonate a quattro", he was 12 and he finished to compose them in three days when he was at the double bassist Triossi's house. Rossini wrote about the sonatas: "the sonatas were very bad performed by Triossi double bass, Morini (Triossi's cousin) first violin, his brother cellist and by me as second violin, I was, in truth, the less bad". The Quartetto Rossini exactly takes the name from this unusual
formation, it is not the classic string quartet with the viola,
and executes moreover baroque repertoire of sonate a tre for two violini and basso continuo, duetti
of Rossini, Viotti, Boccherini etc and various chamber music adding the
flute or the oboe for the Mozart quartets, where Glauco Bertagnin
plays the viola. The current formation of the Quartetto Rossini has already to its assets concerts in Italy and abroad.
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Virtuosi della Rotonda
the "Rotonda" church in Rovigo
The group is formed
by three violins, viola, cello, double bass and harpsichord, is taken advantage moreover of the important collaboration
of soloists of wind instruments like the trumpet, the oboe, the
flute, ottavino and the clarinet. All the
musicians who plays with the group have played in the most important festivals
of the world with the most famous ensembles and baroque orchestras.
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