Category Archives: 1717. Memories of a Journey to Italy

Discovering Pisendel

As if this were not enough to awaken our interest in Pisendel, there are those [...]

The “Schrank II” or the legacy of Concert Master Johann Georg Pisendel

At his death, in 1755, Pisendel left an archive of approximately 1800 sheet music. Unfortunately, we [...]

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The Pisendel/Montanari connection.

Antonio Maria Montanari was one of the best known violinists of his time, one of [...]

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The mysterious case of “La Montanari”

The mysterious case of a violin sonata by Giuseppe Valentini, dedicated to Antonio Montanari and [...]