Finger: Sonatae Pro Diversis Instrumentis

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Gottfried Finger (c1655-1730)
Sonatae pro diversis instrumentis op. 1 Sonata prima pro Violino & Viola di Gamba - Sonata nona pro 3 Violinis - Sonata undecima pro 2 Violinis & Viola - Sonata quinta pro 2 Violinis & Viola di Basso - Sonata settima pro 3 Violinis - Sonata terza pro Violino & Viola di Gamba - Sonata duodecima pro 2 Violinis & Viola - Sonata quarta pro 2 Violinis & Viola di Basso - Sonata decima pro 2 Violinis & Viola - Sonata ottava pro 3 Violinis - Sonata seconda pro Violino & Viola di Gamba - Sonata sesta pro 2 Violinis & Viola di Basso

Gottfried Finger (c1655-1730) was a virtuoso gambist and wrote extensively for that instrument. Many of his compositions were for the viol, but he also wrote operas. He was born in Olomouc, modern-day Czech Republic, and worked as an instrumentalist at the court of James II of England in the 1680s before becoming a freelance composer.
Finger was in his early thirties when he published his Opus 1, the Sonatae XII pro diversis instrumentis in London und Amsterdam in 1688. The twelve sonatas in this collection show a confident composer brimming with vitality and youthful strength, unifying virtuosity and harmonic, melodic and contrapuntal invention within a coherent and ever ingenious formal structure. The sonatas can be subdivided into four groups, each with an identical instrumentation. Finger succeeds in giving each of these different scorings its own unmistakable and finely nuanced idiom.

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