Giuseppe Maria Cambini Sheet Music
- Born:c. 13th February 1746
- Died:c. 1810
- Birthplace: Livorno, Italy
Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini was an Italian composer and violinist. Born in Livorno, it is likely that Cambini studied violin with Filippo Manfredi; the only evidence for this is however Cambini's own unreliable account, which also claims inaccurately that he worked with Luigi Boccherini and Pietro Nardini, and was a friend of Joseph Haydn. Another legend about Cambini, circulated by François-Joseph Fétis, claimed that Cambini and his fiancée had been kidnapped by Barbary pirates and ransomed by a music-lover. Cambini arrived in Paris some time before or in 1773, and after one of his symphonies was played at a Concert Spirituel, his music began to be published, quickly building up an oeuvre of much instrumental music and fourteen operas, only two of which survive complete. He was extremely prolific, writing 82 symphonies concertantes, nine symphonies, seventeen concertos and over 100 string quintets.
Cambini's top 10 list
- 01Wind Quintet no. 1 in B flat major
- 02Wind Quintet no. 3 in F major
- 03Wind Quintet no. 2 in D minor
- 04Méthode pour la flûte traversiere
- 056 Petits Airs for Flute and Continuo
- 063 Piano Concertos, Op.15
- 076 Trios for Flute, Oboe and Bassoon, Op.45
- 083 Wind Quintets
- 092 Flute Concerti, Op.37
- 106 Duos for Two Flutes, Op.11
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