Domenico Gabrielli (15 April 1651 or 19 October 1659 – 10 July 1690) was an ItalianBaroque composer and one of the earliest known virtuosocello players, as well as a pioneer of cello music writing.[1] Born inBologna, he worked in the orchestra of the church ofSan Petronio and was also a member and for some time president(principe) of theAccademia Filarmonica of Bologna. During the 1680s he also worked as a musician at the court of DukeFrancesco II d'Este ofModena.
Gabrielli wrote several operas as well as instrumental and vocal church works. He is especially notable as the composer of some of the earliest attested works for solo cello (two sonatas for cello andbasso continuo, a group ofseven ricercari for unaccompanied cello, and acanon for two cellos). Among his contemporaries, his own virtuoso performances on this instrument earned him the nicknameMingain (orMinghino)dal viulunzeel, a dialect form meaning "Dominic of the cello."
Rodoaldo, re d' Italia − opera in 3 acts. Venice 1685 - manuscript in Modena.
Recordings
Domenico Gabrielli - S. Sigismondo re di Borgogna - Oratorio per 5 voci con strumenti - Ensemble Les Nations, Maria Luisa Baldassari, direzione. Tactus, 2008
Ricercars for solo cello - recordings (i) Roel Dieltens (ii) Hidemi Suzuki 2005 (iii) Richard Tunnicliffe 2007 (iv) Bruno Cocset, 2012
Domenico Gabrielli. Cantate.Emanuela Galli, soprano, with ensemble Sistite Sidera. Stradivarius STR 33878 (1 CD, June 2012).
S. Durante:Gabrielli, in:The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. S. Sadie. London 1992. Vol 2, p. 322.
W. Matteuzzi:Gabrielli, in:Dizionario enciclopedico universale della musica e dei musicisti. 2: Le biografie, ed. A. Basso. Turin 1986. Vol. 3, p. 83f.
J. G. Suess:Gabrielli, in:The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. S. Sadie. London 1980. Vol 7, p. 67.
^Wade-Matthews, Max (2013). "Cello".Music: An Illustrated History. An Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments and the Art of Music-Making. Lorenz Books. p. 110.
