Claudio Giuliani guitar

Perhaps best known for writing the waltz onwhich Beethoven based his DiabelliVariations, Anton Diabelli was also anestablished composer and musician in hisown right. Resident in Vienna in the late18th and early 19th centuries, Diabelli was agood friend of Franz Schubert.Thanks to the emergence of an educatedmiddle class, there was less and lessdependence on religious or royal patronage.Diabelli’s sonatas for guitar, widelyconsidered to be masterpieces of the guitarrepertoire, reflect Viennese musical taste atthis time. They were his only foray intosonata form, and document the evolution ofthe composer’s style. The first sonataincludes so?called ‘Italianisms’ while thesecond has a distinctly Schubertian flavour,no doubt due to his close friendship with thecomposer. The third sonata shows a morerevolutionary take on the principles ofsonata form where many of the ideas arechallenged. The second part of the firstmovement contains such drama and skill inthe development of the themes that it isconsidered one of the finest passages in theguitar sonata repertoire.Acclaimed Italian guitarist Claudio Giulianitrained at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory inRome. He has published transcriptions of 82sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, and haspreviously recorded 30 sonatas by DomenicoCimarosa for Brilliant Classics in 2011.