Domenico Colla
Domenico Colla was an 18th-century Brescian composer and performer who traveled Europe in the 1760s, performing in the most important theaters and salons.[6][7] Together with his brother Giuseppe, he was one of the Colla brothers.[8] The brothers played in royal circles; they performed before Frederick the Great in 1765 in the palace at Sanssouci.[2] They were in London in 1766, where it was advertised that they had performed before the British royalty, as well as other the royal families of Europe.[8] The brothers were also noted for being survivors of slavery in Algiers, rescued from it by the King of Poland.[8][9]
The brothers played the colascione and colascioncino and guitar.[7] Domenico's name is attached to six sonatas for the smaller colascioncino.[7]
The cocolascione was a long-necked lute (strings 100 –130 cm), possibly related to the dutar or tanbur.[7] The colascioncino was tuned an octave higher with strings 50–60 cm long.[7] The instruments can have two or three strings.[7] According to the advertisement, the brothers played the two string variety.[8]
Domenico composed music, and his six sonatas for the colascioncino may be the only works that have survived for that instrument.[6][10] Each sonata lists either the colascioncino or colascioncino of two strings.[10]
Works
[edit | edit source]Six Colascioncino Sonatas[10] The sonatas are set up with the colascioncino playing the melody, accompanied by a bass-ranged instrument, the colascione.[11]
- Sonata in G major
- Sonata in G major
- Sonata in D major
- Sonata in E major
- Sonata in E-flat major
- Sonata in F major
References
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- ^ RISM 211011813 Rudolf Lück, 1954, p.64, (RISM has quote from Lück's dissertation) Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Colascione und seiner süddeutschen Tondenkmäler im 18. Jahrhundert: Inaugural-Dissertation der Philosophischen Fakultät der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität zu Erlangen.
External links
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- British Museum, drawing from 1749 by Ghezzi that preceded the later 1752 engraving by Oesterreich.
- RISM page for Domenico Colla; has link to pages about his works.
- Record for Colla's sonatas in Dresden library.
- RISM 211011813 Colla's sonatas in RISM.]
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