La grazia e la genialità di uno dei più grandi compositori di tutti i tempi. Bravissimi gli interpreti che colgono e fanno proprio lo spirito del divo e incommensurabile Leo.
Wow that instrument! I never listen before a modern viola with resonance strings...so beutifull! Maybe similar to viola d'amore but lighter that this one. Wonderfull piece anyway ofc and nice solist´s interpretation, good job all!
Leonardo Leo, the second greatest composer of all time. The brilliant composer Niccolo' Piccinni called him the greatest of all time, I think he is the second greatest. Leo has been almost completely forgotten, but there has been a little bit of a survival. It is as if the history of Western music cut off one of its two legs. Surely one of the greatest distortions in the cultural history of mankind. It is time to declare Neapolitan settecento music UNESCO World Heritage. Leo Depuydt (Brown University/Harvard University) PS (May 2020) There is a lot of skepticism when I make statements like the above, as you can guess. But since we are in German territory with this video, I just found out that the famous German music critic and composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt, who was friends with Goethe and Schiller, wrote that he considered Leo the most important composer of the eighteenth century. Now why would Reichardt say that? I guess UA-cam critics of the above statements would be forced to propose that Reichardt lost his mind. I have bad news for these people: Reichardt was right, with one exception.
@Alcina Thanks for your request. The source is the Musikalische Monatsschrift of October 1792. Reichardt founded the journal but it did not last long. It has been obliterated from the map of music history. I cite the German (e for Umlaut throughout). If you need help please let me know. Here is the quote from p. 98: “Leo (Leonardo) ist fuer den Beobachter, Kunstgeschichtforscher und Kuenstler der wichtigste Componist dieses Jahrhunderts. Keiner hat so allgemein und mannichfach auf sein Jahrhundert gewirkt, als er. In seinen Werken findet man alle Formen, die die Tonkuenstler bis itzt bearbeitet haben und noch bearbeiten. Die aeltern veschoenert, vervollkommet und mit unzaehligen neuern vermehrt. Die grosse Oper in Italien hat bis diesen Tag nichts, wozu in feinen Werken nicht die Grundformen liegen.” WOW. The great musician Fischer-Diskau wrote a biography of Reichardt (I have a copy signed by him). He reports an anecdote according to which Reichardt tried to convince the Frederick the Great (a musician himself) that Leonardo Vinci and Leonardo Leo were the greatest musicians of the 18th century. That did not go anywhere. I suspect that Reichardt’s career suffered because of it. He composed a glass harmonica concert and Mozart heard it performed in Berlin and went back to Vienna to compose his own. Is Mozart’s better? I am not sure. Have a listen. My opinion: Reichardt’s is just as good if not better. What is wrong with the history of Western music? Right now, there is just Reichardt and me. But I like to think: At least, I am not alone. Do you want to join? Please listen to Leo’s Dixit Dominus. Mozart or Bach cannot do this. Leo Depuydt
@Alcina Thanks you for your speedy reply. The problem with Leonardo Leo is not even ranking. Nobody even knows about him. Reichardt knew everyone important in music and was appreciated by everyone important in music, king musicians and Mozart. Just another example. He wrote these wonderful mandolin concertos. Better than Vivaldi's. They performed them near Brindisi and posted them on UA-cam. And then they vanished. I thought to myself. Leo vanished once again. I have been reading about Reichardt. He is a genius in his own right. Fischer-Diskau's biography is quite clear on this point. And this genius thought that Leo was a genius. Genius squared. Thanks for reminding me about the flute Frederick and the cello Frederick. I will also study Maurice Greene in the days ahead. I did not even know he existed. I agree 100% with your assessment of Zelenka. Zelenka was Bach on steroids. Bach admired Zelenka. Some don't like ranking musicians, others do. I definitely do, but I accept that it is subjective. I rank Pergolesi without any hesitation as the most sensitive composer who ever existed and Leo number two. The modern tonality of western music was born in early settecento Naples. But how subjective? There is the individually subjective and the collectively objective. I have collected dozens and dozens of testimonies from the greatest musical minds of the settecento all over Europe and all agree with my opinion on Pergolesi. What is so totally bizarre is that this universal consensus vanished from the records of music history. You mention Vinci's Catone. I have listened to all of it several times. But his Didone is better. And I have also listened to it several times, all of it. Handel smuggled it to London and stole from it as he stole from so many others. Charles Burney, the celebrated music historian, transmits a report that the young teenage Pergolesi wanted to leave school in Naples to compose in the manner Vinci (Pergolesi started composing in 1730 when Vinci died). I think that I am the first person to recognize that Vinci's music is the Carrara marble out of which Pergolesi fashioned his Michelangelo like statues. I can hear Vinci in Pergolesi everywhere! Leo Depuydt PS I actually saw the typo "feinen" after I sent it. But I said what the heck. Where are the good old days of the settecento where the writing of s looked liked that if f. I think my typo was a divine premonition. Pergolesi, Leo, and Vinci are trying to tell me something. The same thing that Burney, Gretry, Rousseau, d'Alembert, Rameau, Bellini, Arteaga, Mattei, Sigismundo, Reichardt, Piccinni and so many others expressed in so much stronger terms than I do. Who am I to contradict them? There is something really rotten about the history of western music. First of all, music is Italy's gift to the world and early settecento Neapolitan music deserves UNESCO World Heritage status.
Hi there! Sorry to disappoint you, but unfortunately there is no transcription of this piece for viola yet. I played from the cello part in the original score. Try it, it's not so difficult. Enjoy playing this nice piece!
I just want you to know how shocked and happy that you took the time to reach out, you are awesome. I will look for more of your performances to enjoy! You've got a new fan! Keep playing you are amazing! Hope you come to Seattle some time to play, would be awesome to see you in concert. Take care!!!!
grazie supremo maestro Leo,la tua musica resterà per sempre nella sua grandezza,studiata e curata nei minimi particolari,il maestro dei maestri LEO!!!
La grazia e la genialità di uno dei più grandi compositori di tutti i tempi. Bravissimi gli interpreti che colgono e fanno proprio lo spirito del divo e incommensurabile Leo.
Il musicista più bello del settecento e padrone di una grazia che commuove ancora oggi Grazie Maestro
Splendida esecuzione di un brano meraviglioso, complimenti!
Bravissimi!!!
Leonardo Leo,non lo conoscevo
(scuola napoletana 1700),
👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Excelente sonido e interpretaciones! Buen trabajo.
Musical classics forms of italian autor, in The Baroque period. Performance excellent.
Que hermoso la musica sinfonica que trasmite tranquilidad al espiritu.
Bellissimo. Suoni che toccano il cuore. Congratulazioni.
Schön dich zu finden. Leider nur hier.
I know this work as a cello concerto but it works equally well transcribed for Viola Campanula, beautifully performed.
Wow that instrument!
I never listen before a modern viola with resonance strings...so beutifull! Maybe similar to viola d'amore but lighter that this one.
Wonderfull piece anyway ofc and nice solist´s interpretation, good job all!
Élégant et raffiné
정말 아름다운 음악회.. 아름답네요..^^
Wow so beautiful!# Sounds different from the other violins...Thanks for posting!
Leonardo Leo, the second greatest composer of all time. The brilliant composer Niccolo' Piccinni called him the greatest of all time, I think he is the second greatest. Leo has been almost completely forgotten, but there has been a little bit of a survival. It is as if the history of Western music cut off one of its two legs. Surely one of the greatest distortions in the cultural history of mankind. It is time to declare Neapolitan settecento music UNESCO World Heritage. Leo Depuydt (Brown University/Harvard University) PS (May 2020) There is a lot of skepticism when I make statements like the above, as you can guess. But since we are in German territory with this video, I just found out that the famous German music critic and composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt, who was friends with Goethe and Schiller, wrote that he considered Leo the most important composer of the eighteenth century. Now why would Reichardt say that? I guess UA-cam critics of the above statements would be forced to propose that Reichardt lost his mind. I have bad news for these people: Reichardt was right, with one exception.
Is Alessandro Scarlatti the excepton?
@Alcina Thanks for your request. The source is the Musikalische Monatsschrift of October 1792. Reichardt founded the journal but it did not last long. It has been obliterated from the map of music history. I cite the German (e for Umlaut throughout). If you need help please let me know. Here is the quote from p. 98: “Leo (Leonardo) ist fuer den Beobachter, Kunstgeschichtforscher und Kuenstler der wichtigste Componist dieses Jahrhunderts. Keiner hat so allgemein und mannichfach auf sein Jahrhundert gewirkt, als er. In seinen Werken findet man alle Formen, die die Tonkuenstler bis itzt bearbeitet haben und noch bearbeiten. Die aeltern veschoenert, vervollkommet und mit unzaehligen neuern vermehrt. Die grosse Oper in Italien hat bis diesen Tag nichts, wozu in feinen Werken nicht die Grundformen liegen.” WOW. The great musician Fischer-Diskau wrote a biography of Reichardt (I have a copy signed by him). He reports an anecdote according to which Reichardt tried to convince the Frederick the Great (a musician himself) that Leonardo Vinci and Leonardo Leo were the greatest musicians of the 18th century. That did not go anywhere. I suspect that Reichardt’s career suffered because of it. He composed a glass harmonica concert and Mozart heard it performed in Berlin and went back to Vienna to compose his own. Is Mozart’s better? I am not sure. Have a listen. My opinion: Reichardt’s is just as good if not better. What is wrong with the history of Western music? Right now, there is just Reichardt and me. But I like to think: At least, I am not alone. Do you want to join? Please listen to Leo’s Dixit Dominus. Mozart or Bach cannot do this. Leo Depuydt
@Alcina Monatsschrift was spelled in premodern fashion as Monathsschrift, with the extra h, and its name was changed from Wochenschrift. LD
@Alcina Thanks you for your speedy reply. The problem with Leonardo Leo is not even ranking. Nobody even knows about him. Reichardt knew everyone important in music and was appreciated by everyone important in music, king musicians and Mozart. Just another example. He wrote these wonderful mandolin concertos. Better than Vivaldi's. They performed them near Brindisi and posted them on UA-cam. And then they vanished. I thought to myself. Leo vanished once again. I have been reading about Reichardt. He is a genius in his own right. Fischer-Diskau's biography is quite clear on this point. And this genius thought that Leo was a genius. Genius squared. Thanks for reminding me about the flute Frederick and the cello Frederick. I will also study Maurice Greene in the days ahead. I did not even know he existed. I agree 100% with your assessment of Zelenka. Zelenka was Bach on steroids. Bach admired Zelenka. Some don't like ranking musicians, others do. I definitely do, but I accept that it is subjective. I rank Pergolesi without any hesitation as the most sensitive composer who ever existed and Leo number two. The modern tonality of western music was born in early settecento Naples. But how subjective? There is the individually subjective and the collectively objective. I have collected dozens and dozens of testimonies from the greatest musical minds of the settecento all over Europe and all agree with my opinion on Pergolesi. What is so totally bizarre is that this universal consensus vanished from the records of music history. You mention Vinci's Catone. I have listened to all of it several times. But his Didone is better. And I have also listened to it several times, all of it. Handel smuggled it to London and stole from it as he stole from so many others. Charles Burney, the celebrated music historian, transmits a report that the young teenage Pergolesi wanted to leave school in Naples to compose in the manner Vinci (Pergolesi started composing in 1730 when Vinci died). I think that I am the first person to recognize that Vinci's music is the Carrara marble out of which Pergolesi fashioned his Michelangelo like statues. I can hear Vinci in Pergolesi everywhere! Leo Depuydt PS I actually saw the typo "feinen" after I sent it. But I said what the heck. Where are the good old days of the settecento where the writing of s looked liked that if f. I think my typo was a divine premonition. Pergolesi, Leo, and Vinci are trying to tell me something. The same thing that Burney, Gretry, Rousseau, d'Alembert, Rameau, Bellini, Arteaga, Mattei, Sigismundo, Reichardt, Piccinni and so many others expressed in so much stronger terms than I do. Who am I to contradict them? There is something really rotten about the history of western music. First of all, music is Italy's gift to the world and early settecento Neapolitan music deserves UNESCO World Heritage status.
@@fabiograssi670 no Pergolesi
Where can I find this pieces sheet music for viola so I can practice and learn it
Hi there!
Sorry to disappoint you, but unfortunately there is no transcription of this piece for viola yet. I played from the cello part in the original score. Try it, it's not so difficult. Enjoy playing this nice piece!
I just want you to know how shocked and happy that you took the time to reach out, you are awesome. I will look for more of your performances to enjoy! You've got a new fan! Keep playing you are amazing! Hope you come to Seattle some time to play, would be awesome to see you in concert. Take care!!!!
I found the cello score. I'm having a hard time understanding how to transpose from tenor/bass clef to Alto.
Che strumento è la viola campanula?