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SONATA in G major

SONATA in G major

 
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Composer:Galliard, Johann Ernst (1687-1747)
Instrumentation:bn/vc. bc/pft.
Publisher Ref:FAG4
A sonata by a contemporary of Handel's in London whose 4 contrasting movements are based on baroque dance forms

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Editor:Ruf, Hugo
Skill Level:B/C
Publisher:Schott & Co.
Year of Issue:1971
ISMN:M001092999
ISBN:none specified
Already a student of the oboe, Galliard was about fifteen when he started to study composition with Farinelli, director of music at the Hanoverian court, and Abbate Steffani, and their Italianate influence was to dominate his music from then on. In about 1706 Galliard went to London as chamber musician to Prince George of Denmark, husband of Queen Anne, and later became organist at Somerset House. Although the music he wrote for one act masques called "pantomimes" was well received, he had little success with opera, possibly because he set English libretti when Italian was expected by fashionable London of the day, and Galliard joined Handel's Italian Opera as solo oboist in 1713 and later established himself as an author.

As an oboe player, it is perhaps natural that many of Galliard's compositions should be for wind and include these "Six Sonatas for the Bassoon or Violoncello with a Thorough Bass for the Harpsichord" which were composed "at the request of one Kennedy, a fine player on the bassoon, and by him often performed in public." They were first published by John Walsh of London in 1733 and consist of an introduction followed by a succession of contrasting movements, often based on dance forms. This is true of Sonata No.2 in G Major where the soloist opens authoritatively in bar 12 of the Andante after an extended keyboard introduction. This first movement cadences in the dominant which leads into the second (Vivace) which "bustles along" giving the soloist the opportunity to vary the dynamics between repeated phrases to achieve an echo effect. The lilting 6/8 of the third movement (Alla Ciciliana Cantabile) is full of grace and elegance and a foil to the vigorous compound duple time of the finale (Spiritoso e Allegro) with its leaps of an octave and more. This edition was prepared by the influential harpsichordist, teacher and pioneer of the early music revival in Germany, Hugo Ruf.


  • Vivace
  • Alla Ciciliana Cantabile
  • Spiritoso e Allegro

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