Taglietti, Giulio (EN)

Taglietti Giulio, *ca. 1660 Brescia, †1718 Brescia, Italian violinist and composer. It is known only from his own publications that from 1695, and probably until the end of his life, he taught at the Jesuit Collegio dei Nobili in Brescia. During this period, he published at least 13 collections in Venice, Bologna, Amsterdam and London, of which 10 have survived. These comprise 20 sonatas a 3, 24 sonatas a 2, 30 sonatas for solo cello and basso continuo, 10 sonatas for solo violin and basso continuo, and 38 concertos and sinfonie a 3, a 4 and a 5. Taglietti’s work was highly regarded by his contemporaries, as evidenced by the reprints of his works and favourable reviews in which he is compared to A. Corelli. Taglietti’s concertos are among his most outstanding and original works. Most of the Concerti e sinfonie Op. 2 (Venice 1696), Concerti Op. 4 (Venice 1699 – lost, Amsterdam, 2nd edition, 1709), Concerti Op. 8 (Venice 1710) and Concerti Op. 11 (Bologna 1713) are typical Venetian three-movement forms; the four- and five-movement concertos are in the form of the sonata da chiesa. The fast movements feature ritornello, fugal or dance forms, whilst the slow movements are short, modulating and freely structured. The concertos from Op. 2 and 4 still belong to the concerto ripieno type, whereas in Op. 8 and 11 Taglietti included works of the concerto grosso type and concertos for solo violin.

Literature: M. Bizzarini Diffusione della sonata a tre nella Brescia di fine Seicento: Il ruolo del Collegio de’ Nobili in: Barocco padano I, eds. A. Colzani, A. Luppi, M. Padoan, Como 2022; P. Wilk Giulio Taglietti i jego koncerty z op. 8 i 11 in: Muzyka jest zawsze współczesna: Studia dedykowane Profesor Alicji Jarzębskiej, eds. A. Sitarz, M. Woźna-Stankiewicz, Krakow 2011.