GATTI: Six Sonatas for Violín & Viola [CD de audio] Paoo Ghidoni, Alfredo Zamarra and Gatti

Gatti lived both in Mantua and in Salzburg where he became friends with the Mozart family. Performed and recorded on 2 most famous instruments: - Violin:Antonio Stradivari:Vesuvius (Cremona, 1727). - Viola:Antonio and Gerolamo Amati: The Stauffer (Cremona, 1615). The sonatas presented in this recording, labelled as Sonate à Violino e Viola in the autograph score at the Biblioteca Musicale Greggiati in Ostiglia and as Sonate Per Violin solo con accompagnamento di Viola in the parts at the Salzburg Museum, are likely to date back to the very beginning of Gattis stay in Salzburg. The autograph is written on paper whose watermarks suggest a date of about 1783. If so, the works were probably commissioned by archbishop Colloredo, for whom a similar cycle of six sonatas was composed in the same year by Michael Haydn, MH 33538, and W. A. Mozart, K 42324. (Another set of six by Joseph Hafeneder in the Toggenburg Collection of Bolzano, minus the first sonata, may share the same origin). In which