An educational programme featuring early music.
Composers with a criminal record, part 3: 17th-century composer Pandolfi Mealli and 18th-century ‘black Mozart’ Joseph de Bologne de Saint Georges.
In 1666, Pandolfi Mealli published his most well-known collection with violin sonatas. Fifteen years later, he had to flee the country for having pierced the castrato Giovanni Marquett with a sword.
Joseph de Bologne de Saint Georges has also been in prison, not because of crimes he committed, but from racist motives.
Pandolfi Mealli (1624-ca. 1687)
From: Sonata a violino solo, opera quarta (1660):
1. Sonata seconda: La Viviana
– Adagio
– Allegro
– Adagio
2. Sonata terza La Monella, Romanesca
– Adagio
– Presto
– (3)
– [c]
3. Sonata Quarta: La Biancuccia
– Adagio – Allegro – Adagio
– Largo
– Allegro – Adagio
– Allegro
– Adagio – Adagio
4. Sonata Sesta: La Vinciolina
– Adagio
– Adagio
– Adagio
Ars Antiqua Austria conducted by Gunar Letzbor, violin
(CD Pandolfi Mealli – Sonate a violino solo. Arcana A 360)
Joseph de Bologne de Saint Georges (1745-1799)
5. Concerto pour le violon in G minor (1777)
– Allegro
– Largo
– Rondeau
Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra
(CD Le chevalier de Saint Georges. Avenira AV 276015)
Picture: Joseph de Bologne de Saint Georges
