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Galuppi
[ gah-loop-pee ]
noun
- Bal·das·sa·re [bahl-dahs-, sah, -, r, e], Il Buranello, 1706–85, Italian composer.
Example Sentences
And the sweet and somber first movement of Galuppi’s “Piano Sonata No. 34 in C Minor” offered a contemplative tonal crossing to Mozart’s “Piano Sonata No. 14.”
For this recital, Olafsson will draw from his most recent release, “Mozart & Contemporaries,” which blends a beautiful selection of Mozart piano pieces with lesser-heard works from Haydn, Baldassare Galuppi, C.P.E.
Bach, Domenico Cimarosa and Baldassare Galuppi — and to elevate him back to the heavens, bathing the audience in just shy of 90 minutes of aching beauty.
Some of the pieces were subdued and reflective, like the graceful Galuppi Andante with which she began.
The first half cleverly connects character pieces by different composers through their similar keys, jumping from Galuppi and Bach to Brahms and Chopin; the second stays firmly in Wang’s late-Romantic specialty, with two sonatas by Scriabin framing works by Ravel, Mompou and Berg.
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