GIOACHINO ROSSINI – SIX SONATE A QUATRO (THE QUARTETT IN OPERA COMPOSERS)

Abstract

First ideas of chamber music and four-part writing for strings occurs in pieces titled sonata a Quattro, but these works were apparently intended for orchestral performance and may have included keyboard continuo (ex. Alessandro Scarlatti's Sonate a quattro per due violini, violetta e violoncello senza cembalo, c1715–250)