Gabrielli: Canon (arr. for 2 violas)
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- Composer: Domenico Gabrielli (1651-1690)
- Format: Score & Set of Parts
- Instrumentation (this edition): Viola I, Viola II
- Originally for: Cello I, Cello II
- Work: Canon
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- Size: 8.5 x 11.0 inches
Description
This is a fun piece for two violas, playing the same part, but with one player starting one bar after the other player. There are two separate printed parts, plus a score with both parts. It is by Domenico Gabrielli, an Italian composer and cello virtuoso, who was born in Bologna in1651. He became widely known as a cello virtuoso and composer of vocal music. He wrote 12 operas in the 1680s, but he contracted an incurable disease and died in Bologna in July 1690.