Born in 1583, Girolamo Frescobaldi would grow up to be one of the most famo… Read Full Bio ↴Born in 1583, Girolamo Frescobaldi would grow up to be one of the most famous representatives of the early Italian Baroque. He was known for expressive and extravagant improvising and composition. In 1608, he took the organist post of St. Peter's in Rome. Although he held this highly-regarded job that won him many patrons, the pay was never more than a small fraction of his income.
He obsessively edited his own work, to the point where many of his major works were changed several times, and some added or dropped in different versions of the same publication! One can't call these changes superfluous, though, as they often help the flow in the various parts. His prowess at the keyboard was balanced by an obvious lack of formal education to the point that it was actually suggested that he did not understand his own lyrics and indeed that his own rough drafts were incoherent. Any lack of education he had was definitely accounted for by the innate harmonic and rhythmic sense which defines his work. His playing technique involved frequent changes of pace and dynamic, and a careful attention to the smallest nuances is imperative to appreciating the flow in his music.

Frescobaldi / Arr Cassadó : Toccata
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@massimomacri2143

3y↑5

Una meraviglia assoluta, di una commozione sublime. Sólo Slava poteva arrivare a tanta gloria!!

@polomokipo6000

8y↑11

GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI
{ FERRARE 1583-1643 ROMA }
TOCCATA - MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH & HERBERT TACHEZI. Une merveille, cette toccata interprétation grandiose bravo. Un des grands compositeurs de la musique baroque, maitre du clavecin et de l'orgue, qui est Eternel sublime merci.

@karlpj1

6y↑5

This is believed to be a hoax from Gaspar Cassado, similar to the Albinoni Adagio (that in reality is from Giazotto)

@owcytrus

stop it!!!

@richardwebb2348

4y↑8

Composed (not arranged) by Gaspar Cassado in 1925, supposedly in the style of Frescobaldi.

@fivizzano

3y↑5

NOT really PROVEN to be composed...Cassadó NEVER said that he COMPOSED the work....

http://www.cello.org/newsletter/articles/cassado/chapter2.htm

"...Mr. Cassadó explains that the Toccata which he has arranged for cello was discovered by him in the archives of La Merced, the Conservatory of Music at Barcelona where his father was for a long time organist and Maestro di Cappela. The score bore the title Toccata and the name of Frescobaldi, and was presumably a copy originally written for organ solo. Mr. Cassadó adds: "I cannot be absolutely sure whether it was Frescobaldi or another author who did the rest, though in some passages one can easily find some characteristic "frescobaldiane." 4
Burk accepted Cassadó's hilariously evasive explanation, while Schenkman was not convinced. Schenkman concluded that Cassadó wrote the Toccata and assumed he would never be asked to discuss its authenticity, probably as Kreisler had at first. The difference between the two, of course, is that when confronted, Kreisler freely admitted his forgery, and Cassadó did not. Perhaps Cassadó, having had such an unpleasant experience with bad publicity in 1949, did not wish to undergo anything similar. He also did not have the same popularity as Kreisler, and couldn't be sure of the same forgiveness."