Freitag, 4. Dezember 2020

Robert Hill, Christopher Hail, Christopher Falzone

04 12 2020 

In Anknüpfung an Bartolomeo Cristofori's ältesten erhaltenen Pianoforte in einem Beitrag gestern: 

Robert Hill spielt auf einem Nachbau unter dem Titel „D Scarlatti & the Baroque Fortepiano: Six Sonatas“ die Sonaten K 127, K 247, K 147, K 208, K 209, K 417 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A_gyfWTEbg 

Das Duzend voll macht Fou Ts'ong am Klavier mit K 424, K 425, K 454, K 455, K 546 und K 547 – alles Sol Sonaten an einem nebeligen Morgen. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqZRi2e37bM 

„The half dozens“ gibt’s natürlich auch von Chet Baker… 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ffSwidNXOM 

Der Musikwissenschaftler, Scarlatti Forscher, Bibliothekar und Pianist Christopher Hail (1938-2014) hatte von 2007 bis 2014 eine wichtige Website über Domenico Scarlatti (mysite.verizon.net/chrishail/scarlatti; mittlerweile offline), sie ist nunmehr in Buchform (eBook/Kindle) mit 1000 Seiten zugänglich: 

Christopher Hail, Michael O'Connor (Hrsg.): Scarlatti Domenico: A new look at the sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti for people who use both sides of their brain, Rockport, MA: Protean Press, 2017. Kindle Edition 

In 2007, Christopher Hail began to contribute to the scholarly research on the work of Domenico Scarlatti by authoring an erudite, witty, and successful website dedicated to the Italian composer. He contributed to it daily, until his death in 2014. Given the relevance of Hail’s research, his family estate resolved to publish the content of the website in permanent book form to make it available to musicians, scholars, and music and university libraries. 

As a career librarian at Harvard University, Hail recognized the challenges confronting scholars. He used his professional skills to create a thorough and reliable reference book – in his own words, “an attempt to integrate all the various new collections and research into a comprehensive resource for people seriously interested in studying Scarlatti.” 

Hail’s work offers new solutions to many of the perplexing problems scholars and musicians encounter in the study of the sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. Each piece is discussed from a historical, analytical, and musicological point of view, substantially adding to the already monumental work on the composer conducted by Ralph Kirkpatrick and many others. 

In this volume, Hail investigates five major questions: 

 • For whom did Scarlatti compose the sonatas? 
 • When did he compose them? 
 • Did he compile them in major collections himself? 
 • In what order were these collections compiled, and 
 • Were they merely teaching tools, or did they serve a serious artistic purpose? 

As an accomplished pianist, Hail played a Scarlatti sonata daily, just as the composer’s most illustrious pupil, the Queen Consort of Spain Maria Barbara di Braganza, apparently did. He also believed that, along with his 1685 contemporaries Bach and Handel, Scarlatti belongs in the Pantheon of the immortals of music. And it was his involvement on a deep intellectual and emotional level in his lifelong engagement with the life and work of Domenico Scarlatti that makes this volume perhaps the most significant contribution to Scarlatti scholarship since Kirkpatrick’s celebrated research over half a century ago. 

Nachruf/Todesnachricht: https://bostoncremation.org/obituary/christopher-hail 

Christopher Falzone starb auch 2014, allerdings erst 29jährig. Hier ist er am Klavier mit der Sonate in h-Moll K 27 zu hören (und sehen). 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNDqhI8amjc

Im DIARIUM steht: großreinemachen in den gehörgängen / und

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