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 | | Giuseppe Torelli was active in the orchestra of the huge Basilica di San Petronio in Bologna, first from 1686 to 1695 as a violist and then, from 1701 to 1709, as a violinist; in the intervening years, during which the basilicas orchestra was disbanded, he worked in Ansbach and Vienna. |
 | | The so-called Concerto by Torelli is not to be found among the rich collection of manuscripts still surviving in Bologna, but instead appeared in about 1715 as the sixth in a series of concertos by Bitti, Vivaldi, and Torelli published in Amsterdam by Etienne Roger, who, incidentally, was also Corellis publisher. |
 | | Its structure, too, resembles that of several other Torelli pieces in which the trumpet serves as a foil to the continously operating string body, so that it is not to be considered as a trumpet concerto, but rather as a (group) concerto with trumpet. |
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