1) Allegro 00:01 2) Presto: 06:15
Make no mistake: this sonata, like the seven others in the group published in 1745, were indeed composed by Domenico Alberti, not by Giuseppe Jozzi. And who the devil was Giuseppe Jozzi, you will almost certainly ask? Jozzi, a castrato singer, had been a pupil of Alberti. He later moved to London, where he published a set of eight sonatas as a work of his own, whereas in reality, they had been created by his teacher Alberti. Soon thereafter, the fraud was discovered, and the works were published again, this time being attributed to the correct author.
Domenico Alberti was born in Venice; he died in Rome, probably in 1746, at the age of only 36. He was mainly a singer. In fact, he was so good that he impressed the great Farinelli (friend of Domenico Scarlatti) when he went to Spain in 1736. Today, his works are almost never played, despite their charm. Alberti is remembered mainly because he (unwittingly) lent his name to the type of broken-chord bass line that became an almost ubiquitous feature of what we now call “classical” keyboard music: Mozart, Haydn and others used this form of bass very often in their works.
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