The Art of Partimento History, Theory, and Practice

At the height of the Enlightenment, four conservatories in Naples stood at the center of European composition. Maestros

taught their students to compose with unprecedented swiftness and elegance using the partimento, an instructional tool

derived from the basso continuo that encouraged improvisation as the path to musical fluency. Although the practice

vanished in the early nineteenth century, its legacy lived on in the music of the next generation. In The Art of Partimento,

performer and music-historian Giorgio Sanguinetti chronicles the history of this long-forgotten Neapolitan art. Sanguinetti

has painstakingly reconstructed the oral tradition that accompanied these partimento manuscripts, now scattered

throughout Europe. Beginning with the origins of the partimento in the circles of Corelli, Pasquini, and Alessandro Scarlatti

in Rome and tracing it through the peak of the tradition in Naples, The Art of Partimento gives a glimpse into the daily life

and work of an eighteenth century composer.

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