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Alessandro Rolla, the Glossary

Alessandro Rolla (23 April 175714 September 1841) was an Italian viola and violin virtuoso, composer, conductor and teacher.^[1]

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18th-century Italian violinists
18th-century conductors (music)
Italian classical violists
Italian string quartet composers
Musicians from Pavia

Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung

The Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (General music newspaper) was a German-language periodical published in the 19th century.

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Ambrosian chant

Ambrosian chant (also known as Milanese chant) is the liturgical plainchant repertory of the Ambrosian rite of the Roman Catholic Church, related to but distinct from Gregorian chant.

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André

André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew and is now also used in the English-speaking world.

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Giuseppe Antonio Rolla (18 April 1798, in Parma – 19 March 1837, in Dresden) was an Italian violin and viola virtuoso and composer. Alessandro Rolla and Antonio Rolla are 19th-century classical violinists, composers for violin, Italian Romantic composers, Italian classical violinists, Italian classical violists, Italian male classical composers and Italian male classical violinists.

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Aristocracy

Aristocracy is a form of government that places power in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class, the aristocrats.

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Artaria

Artaria & Co. was one of the most important music publishing firms of the late 18th and 19th century.

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Breitkopf & Härtel

Breitkopf & Härtel is a German music publishing house.

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Casa Ricordi

Casa Ricordi is a publisher of primarily classical music and opera.

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Cello

The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family.

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Cesare Pugni

Cesare Pugni (Cezar' Puni; 31 May 1802, in Genoa &ndash) was an Italian composer of ballet music, a pianist and a violinist. Alessandro Rolla and Cesare Pugni are Italian Romantic composers and Italian male classical composers.

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Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room.

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Charles Burney

Charles Burney (7 April 1726 – 12 April 1814) was an English music historian, composer and musician.

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Chromatic scale

The chromatic scale (or twelve-tone scale) is a set of twelve pitches (more completely, pitch classes) used in tonal music, with notes separated by the interval of a semitone.

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Composer

A composer is a person who writes music.

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Concerto

A concerto (plural concertos, or concerti from the Italian plural) is, from the late Baroque era, mostly understood as an instrumental composition, written for one or more soloists accompanied by an orchestra or other ensemble.

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Così fan tutte

(Women are like that, or The School for Lovers), K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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Diatonic and chromatic

Diatonic and chromatic are terms in music theory that are used to characterize scales.

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Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni (K. 527; Vienna (1788) title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni) is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

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Double stop

In music, a double stop is the technique of playing two notes simultaneously on a stringed instrument such as a violin, a viola, a cello, or a double bass.

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Duet

A duet is a musical composition for two performers in which the performers have equal importance to the piece, often a composition involving two singers or two pianists.

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Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer, best known for his almost 70 operas. Alessandro Rolla and Gaetano Donizetti are Italian Romantic composers and Italian string quartet composers.

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Georg Philipp Telemann

Georg Philipp Telemann (– 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist.

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Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces and some sacred music. Alessandro Rolla and Gioachino Rossini are Italian Classical-period composers and Italian Romantic composers.

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Giovanni Andrea Fioroni

Giovanni Andrea Fioroni (also Fiorini, Florono) was an Italian classical composer, maestro di cappella and organist born in Pavia in 1716, although he had studied music for fifteen years with Leonardo Leo in Naples. Alessandro Rolla and Giovanni Andrea Fioroni are 18th-century Italian composers and 18th-century Italian male musicians.

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Giovanni Battista Sammartini

Giovanni Battista Sammartini (c. 1700 – 15 January 1775) was an Italian composer, violinist, organist, choirmaster and teacher. Alessandro Rolla and Giovanni Battista Sammartini are 18th-century Italian composers, 18th-century Italian male musicians, Italian Classical-period composers and Italian string quartet composers.

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Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas. Alessandro Rolla and Giuseppe Verdi are Italian Romantic composers.

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Guitar

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.

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Instrumental

An instrumental or instrumental song is music normally without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting.

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Interval (music)

In music theory, an interval is a difference in pitch between two sounds.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Joseph Haydn

Franz Joseph Haydn (31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period.

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Kapellmeister

Kapellmeister, from German Kapelle (chapel) and Meister (master), literally "master of the chapel choir", designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians.

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Key (music)

In music theory, the key of a piece is the group of pitches, or scale, that forms the basis of a musical composition in Western classical music, art music, and pop music.

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La clemenza di Tito

La clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus), K. 621, is an opera seria in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after Pietro Metastasio.

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La Scala

La Scala (officially italics) is a historic opera house in Milan, Italy.

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Leipzig

Leipzig (Upper Saxon: Leibz'sch) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Luigi Rados

Luigi Rados (19 October 1773 – 1840) was an Italian engraver.

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Milan

Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.

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Milan Cathedral

Milan Cathedral (Duomo di Milano; Domm de Milan), or Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica of the Nativity of Saint Mary (Basilica cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria Nascente), is the cathedral church of Milan, Lombardy, Italy.

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Music of Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of Austria, and has long been one of the major centers for cultural development in central Europe.

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Niccolò Paganini

Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (27 October 178227 May 1840) was an Italian violinist and composer. Alessandro Rolla and Niccolò Paganini are 19th-century classical violinists, composers for violin, Italian Romantic composers, Italian classical violinists, Italian male classical composers, Italian male classical violinists and Italian string quartet composers.

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Norma (opera)

Norma is a tragedia lirica or opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with libretto by Felice Romani after the play Norma, ou L'infanticide (Norma, or The Infanticide) by Alexandre Soumet.

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Octave

In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the '''diapason''') is a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice the frequency of vibration of the other.

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Offenbach am Main

Offenbach am Main is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the left bank of the river Main.

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Orchestra

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Pavia

Pavia (Ticinum; Papia) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, in Northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino near its confluence with the Po.

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Pizzicato

Pizzicato (translated as 'pinched', and sometimes roughly as 'plucked') is a playing technique that involves plucking the strings of a string instrument.

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Quartet

In music, a quartet is an ensemble of four singers or instrumental performers.

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Serenade

In music, a serenade (also sometimes called a serenata, from the Italian) is a musical composition or performance delivered in honour of someone or something.

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Sinfonia concertante

Sinfonia concertante (also called symphonie concertante) is an orchestral work, normally in several movements, in which one or more solo instruments contrast with the full orchestra.

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Solo (music)

In music, a solo (alone) is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung featuring a single performer, who may be performing completely alone or supported by an accompanying instrument such as a piano or organ, a continuo group (in Baroque music), or the rest of a choir, orchestra, band, or other ensemble.

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Sonata

Sonata (Italian:, pl. sonate; from Latin and Italian: sonare, "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian cantare, "to sing"), a piece sung.

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String trio

A string trio is a group of three string instruments or a piece written for such a group.

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Subject (music)

In music, a subject is the material, usually a recognizable melody, upon which part or all of a composition is based.

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Symphony

A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often for orchestra.

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The Marriage of Figaro

The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), K. 492, is a commedia per musica (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

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Variation (music)

In music, variation is a formal technique where material is repeated in an altered form.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.

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Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was an Italian opera composer, who was known for his long-flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania". Alessandro Rolla and Vincenzo Bellini are Italian Romantic composers and Italian male classical composers.

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Viola

The viola is a string instrument that is usually bowed.

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Viola concerto

A viola concerto is a concerto contrasting a viola with another body of musical instruments such as an orchestra or chamber music ensemble.

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Violin

The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family.

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Virtuoso

A virtuoso (from Italian virtuoso, or; Late Latin virtuosus; Latin virtus; 'virtue', 'excellence' or 'skill') is an individual who possesses outstanding talent and technical ability in a particular art or field such as fine arts, music, singing, playing a musical instrument, or composition.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Rolla

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See also

18th-century Italian violinists

18th-century conductors (music)

Italian classical violists

Italian string quartet composers

Musicians from Pavia

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