Ottaviano Tenerani (born 14 February 1969, in Pontedera, Italy) is an Italian keyboard player, conductor, musicologist. He is the leader of Il Rossignolo, an ensemble on period instruments that he founded in 1998 together with the flautist Marica Testi and the recorder and oboe player Martino Noferi.
Ottaviano Tenerani who has specialized in the interpretation of baroque and classical music, is active both as performer and researcher. He has appeared as conductor and keyboard player in hundreds of concerts and numerous recordings for labels such as Sony Classical. [1] / Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, [2] CPO, [3] Tactus, [4] Brilliant Classics, [5] and Dynamic.
Much involved in musicological research, he has presented modern day first performances of vocal and instrumental music by Alessandro Scarlatti, Georg Friedrich Händel, Antonio Caldara, Johann Joachim Quantz, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Orazio Caccini and Giovanni Battista Martini.
He discovered the serenade Germanico, attributed to Händel, that he recorded with Il Rossignolo in 2011 for Sony Classical. The critical acclaim won by this recording [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] launched further collaboration between Tenerani (with Il Rossignolo) and Sony Classical with the recording of the complete solo sonatas by Georg Friedrich Händel (released in August 2019) [11] and other music from the unedited sacred and secular Italian repertoires.
Ottaviano Tenerani is professor of historical keyboard, chamber music and curator of the collection of musical instruments at the Accademia Internazionale d’Organo e Musica Antica Giuseppe Gherardeschi [12] in Pistoia and teach in several master classes and academies. Since 2008, he has had an affiliation with the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Rinaldo Franci [13] in Siena providing master classes in historical performance practice and harpsichord. In the same Conservatory he is involved as conductor in early music orchestral projects [14] [15]
The trio sonata is a genre, typically consisting of several movements, with two melody instruments and continuo. Originating in the early 17th century, the trio sonata was a favorite chamber ensemble combination in the Baroque era.
Charles-Antoine Campion, italianized as Carlo Antonio Campioni was a French-Italian composer who was born in Lorraine, France. He was a prolific composer and represented a link between Baroque compositional methods and those of the Classical style.
Federico Maria Sardelli is an Italian conductor, historicist, composer, musicologist, comic artist, and flautist. He founded the medieval ensemble Modo Antiquo in 1984. In 1987, Modo Antiquo also became a baroque orchestra, debuting with the performance of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Ballet des Saisons in front of an audience of about five thousand.
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Giovanni Legrenzi was an Italian composer of opera, vocal and instrumental music, and organist, of the Baroque era. He was one of the most prominent composers in Venice in the late 17th century, and extremely influential in the development of late Baroque idioms across northern Italy.
The year 1701 in music involved some significant musical events and new works.
Giuseppe Sarti was an Italian opera composer.
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Anna Bon was an Italian composer and performer. Her parents were both involved in music and traveled internationally; her father was Girolamo Bon, a Bolognese librettist and scenographer, and her mother was the singer Rosa Ruvinetti Bon.
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Andrea Teodoro Zani was an Italian violinist and composer.
Maurice Steger is a Swiss recorder player and conductor, mostly in Baroque music.
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Marco Rogliano is an Italian violinist.
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