Piccinni (Piccini), Niccolò

Piccinni (Piccini), Niccolò – The Periodical Overture in 8 parts No. 20, Overture to La buona figliuola [La Cecchina] / New print

Published by Robert Bremner at the Harp and Hautboy, opposite Somerset-House, in the Strand
Issued: 7 September 1767; price 2 shillings
Source: Henry Watson Music Library – Courtesy of Manchester Libraries,
Information and Archives, Manchester City Council: BR580Po31
Instrumentation: 2 violins, viola, basso, 2 oboes, 2 horns [originally in D]
Editors: Barnaby Priest & Alyson McLamore

After launching “Opera Quarta” of the Periodical Overtures with a work by Gaetano Pugnani (1731–1798), publisher Robert Bremner (c.1713–1789) chose to continue his only “all-Italian” opus of six symphonies with another composer who—like Pugnani—had not previously appeared in the series: Niccolò Piccinni (Piccini) (1728–1800). Not only did Bremner feature the overture from La buona figliuola as Periodical Overture No. 20, but he went on to include symphonies by Piccinni…

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