| TITLES IN TECLA:
Grand Trio
Concertant for flute or violin, viola, and guitar, op. 30. New
re-engraved edition from Tecla
Trois Duos
faciles, op. 3 for violin and guitar, easy but good pieces.
Trois Trios, op. 4 for flute,
viola, and guitar, again easy but good. JANUARY 2004: now a CD available of op. 4
no. 1.
Second Grand Trio Concertant, op.
45 for flute or violin, viola, and guitar. A major and more
advanced work.
Works by Francesco Molino directly downloadable online
from our sister company Hebe
Tecla main page. |
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Francesco Molino (1768-1847)
Molino's Grand Trio Concertant, op. 30, for
flute or violin, viola, and guitar, a fine and major work never
before published in our own time as far as I know, is now
available in Tecla. Molino's complete trios, that is to
say op. 30 and opp. 4 and 45, are now also available directly
downloadable online from our
sister site Hebe in modern editions, score and parts.
Francesco Molino (1768-1847) was an Italian
guitarist and composer who lived for some years in Paris.
He was born at Ivrea near Turin on 4 June
1768. At the age of fifteen, in 1783, he enrolled in the band of
the Piedmont Regiment as an oboist, a post which he resigned in
1793. Also in this period, from 1786 to 1789, he played
the viola in the orchestra of the Teatro Regio in Turin. Then
from 1814 to 1818 he was employed in the royal chapel in Turin.
(We do not yet know where he spent the period between 1793 and
1814.) By 1817 he had published two guitar methods (they are in
Whistling's Handbuch for that year). Then in about 1820
he moved to Paris where he was very active as a teacher and
composer, until his death there in 1847. He wrote two
violin concertos, of which the second was dedicated to Kreutzer;
one guitar concerto, op. 56; many works for guitar with other
instruments; and many guitar solos.
The details above about Turin come from the
preface by Mario Dell'Ara to the
Tecla edition of Molino's op. 3. See also his article
"Luigi, Valentino, e Francesco Molino", Il Fronimo,
no. 50, January 1985. |