Jommelli, Niccolò

The Periodical Overture in 8 parts XIV
(Overture to Demetrio + Chaconne)

Niccolò Jommelli

Published by Robert Bremner at the Harp and Hautboy, opposite Somerset-House, in the Strand
Issued: 31 May 1766; price 2 shillings
Source: Henry Watson Music Library – Courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council: BR580Js41
Instrumentation: 2 violins, viola, basso [with bassoon cues], 2 oboes, 2 horns [orig. in E-flat]
Editors: Barnaby Priest & Alyson McLamor

COMMENTARYIf publisher Robert Bremner (c.1713–1789) hadmaintained a list of “Greatest Hits” from hisPeriodical Overture series, Periodical Overture No.14 by Niccolò Jommelli (1714–1774) might wellhave been at the top of the tally. Besides enjoyingperformances for decades, it was published numeroustimes in keyboard transcriptions. Its second movement also launched an English fad for orchestralchaconnes.1 Surprisingly, though, this was the onlytime that Jommelli was represented in Bremner’stwenty-year set.Jommelli was a particularly well-travelledcomposer by mid-eighteenth-century standards. Hereceived most of his early training in Naples, and hisprofessional  …

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