Antonio Brioschi: Symphonies | 1734-1744

Performed by Vanni Moretto and Atalanta Fugiens Ensemble on period instruments. This video is presenting recording of fine symphonies by one of the most important pioneering composers in the eighteenth-century symphonic genre. This little known Italian late baroque composer Antonio Brioschi had acquired considerable experience in symphonic writing many years before Haydn completed his earliest works in the genre in the late 1750s. A prolific composer of instrumental music, Brioschi composed about fifty well-crafted symphonies during the period between circa 1725 and 1750. As far as we know, no composer except Brioschi and perhaps another Italian, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, wrote so many symphonies by 1750. In spite of this impressive repertoire, Antonio Brioschi had unfortunately been ignored in the nineteenth-century literature and subsequently remained almost unknown until 1980s where Prof. Bathia Churgin and Dr. Sarah Mandel rediscovered the symphonies and prepared their modern editions.