Word: rosetti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...content with the aforementioned two chestnuts, "Mal" Holmes has thrown in a Sinfonia by Rosetti, and Bach's suite for orchestra in C Major. Rosetti, like Sweelinck and Buxtchude, had the bad luck of living and writing under the shadow of a greater contemporary, in his case, Mozart. His biography, where it is known at all, is full of the kind of unbelievable poverty and misery that dogged Mozart, and almost all of the 18th century German composers. In his day, every petty German prince had his court musicians and his "Kapellmeister" who trained the singers, trained and conducted...