Dylan Baraldi

Demian Baraldi & Dylan Baraldi – Massonneau: 3 Duos Concertante, Op. 9 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:06 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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Attractive Classical-era duets for violin and cello in world-premiere recordings by a young Italian pair of brothers.

Despite his French name, Louis Massonneau was a German composer, born in Kassel in 1766 and dying at the venerable age of 82 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in 1848. His father was chef to the Landgrave Friedrich II of Hessen-Kassel, and Louis received his musical training at the hands of the court musicians in Kassel, soon becoming a violinist in the court orchestra. The Landgrave died when Massonneau was 19, and the orchestra disbanded, requiring him to seek his fortune elsewhere. This he did in a series of posts, as a concertmaster of court and theatre orchestras in Göttingen, Frankfurt, Altona, Dessau, Hamburg and finally Mecklenburg, where he settled for good and retired in 1837.

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