GATTI: Concerto for 2 Violins, Piano Concerto, Bassoon Concerto [CD de audio] Paolo Ghidoni, Rita Mascagna (violines), Stefano C

No, Luigi Gatti (1740-1817): a long-lived, fruitful and almost completely forgotten classical musician, whose identity - if anything - is known primarily as a marginal figure in Mozart's life and letters. Leopold and Wolfgang first met Gatti in 1770 in Mantua, when he was already a respected abbot, consecrated and responsible for music and musicians. When Gatti later obtained the position of Kapellmeister at Salzburg Cathedral, contact was established with the Mozart family; since Leopold had set his sights on the position he claimed, which was deliberately overlooked by the archbishop, who then demonstrated his dislike of the Mozarts by dismissing Wolfgang from his positions as court and church composer, thus urgently depriving him of his salary. necessary, namely (as we know from family correspondence) with a kick in the butt. Now then Gatti: with three delightful classical concertos, played on original instruments, recorded live in Mantua and Milan. The scores were cleaned up and re-edited and reveal a musical voice not limited by time and space: in particular, in the piano concerto heard here, he contributed to the new, more complex post-classical style, as Hummel led in the decades after Mozart's death.