Biography of Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824)

• → Links
• → Sheet music
• → Literature

12.05.1755

Born in Fotanetto da Po

Studies with Pugnani

Violin virtuoso in Paris, Hamburg and London.

1819

Head of the opera in Paris

03.03.1824

Dies in London

Further information/Sources:

• → CD-Besprechung Viotti-Konzerte
• → Noten von Viotti auf imslp.org
• → CDs by/of Giovanni Battista Viotti bei JPC (mit Hörproben)
• → Music by/with Giovanni Battista Viotti at amazon.de

Sheet music for flute:

Concerto (A-Dur)

(2 flutes, piano orchestral excerpt)

International Music Company, 2635

Rating: mid-grade

1. Allegro maestoso
2. Adagio
3. Allegretto

Flute Quartet in B Flat Op. 22, No. 1 (B-Dur)

(flute, violin, viola, cello)

Musica Rara, MR1168

Rating: easy

1. Andante
2. Allegro vivace
3. Andante
4. Allegretto

Only parts.

I did not know this composer, but it is a really beautiful piece of music.

Quartett II op. 22/2 (c-moll)

(flute (violin), violin, viola, cello)

Edition Reinhardt, ISMN:M-700043-27-8

Rating: mid-grade

1. Moderato espressivo
2. Menuetto Presto
3. Allegro agitato e con fuoco

Parts and sore

Quartett III op. 22/3 (Es-Dur)

(flute, violin, viola, cello)

Edition Reinhardt, ISMN 3-497-01383-8

Rating: mid-grade

1. Moderato
2. Andante
3. Il Pastorello; Andante tempo di Pastorale
4. Allegro

Parts and score

Literature von/über Giovanni Battista Viotti

• Tonger, P. J.: Conversations-Lexikon der Tonkunst
  Beilage der Neuen Musikzeitung
  Köln: Wilhelm Hassel,
  1910.