PARTIMENTI NAPOLETANI

Just as jazz musicians today use lead sheets (indicating only melody and harmony), so classic musicians once used partimenti - figured or unfired bass lines - in order to learn how to improvise and compose at the harpsichord. 

This album features for the first time partimenti by one of the most renowned composers of the late eighteenth century, Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) - whose «Regole per bene accompagnare il Partimento» was printed 1782 in St. Petersburg as well as by his teacher Francesco Durante.