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Irlandiani: Carina Drury's new disc explores the links between Italian composers in 18th century Dublin and Irish traditional music
[…] and a selection of Irish folk tunes including music by Turlough O'Carolan, the famous Irish harpist composer. Neal's Musick Hall, Fishamble Street, DublinBuilt 1741, where Handel's Messiah premiered In 1724, John and William Neal in Dublin published A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes: Proper for the Violin, German Flute or Hautboy, the first collection of its type of Irish traditional music, and more would follow including Burke Thumoth’s 12 Irish Airs from 1746. This generated interest in Irish traditional music in Dublin (in the way that such processes were happening in Edinburgh as well, see my article on the Scots Gaelic link to Beethoven's arrangements of Scottish songs). The Italian composers became interested in Irish tunes, Geminiani orchestrated 3 Scottish Airs with variations in his Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick (published in 1749), whilst Bocchi's interest influence his […]
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