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About Touchemoulin: Concertos & Symphonies
We know very little about Joseph Touchemoulin, a renowned violinist and chapel master to the princely courts of Bonn and Regensburg for more than 50 years--and one of the few 18th century French composers to have enjoyed a career outside France. Touchemoulin's apprenticeship was largely accomplished at Padua, where he became a pupil of the great violinist and composer Giuseppe Tartini. This is the source of the exuberant Italian idiom which characterizes his work, and which he would later combine with the delicacy and ease of the German tradition. This first recording of Touchemoulin on period instruments, or on authentic copies, presents three of the composer's concertos and two of his symphonies--charming, finely made music that combines Italian influences with the current tastes of the Mannheim school.
