An Unknown Violin Concerto by Gaetano Pugnani as Presented in a Monograph by Fabio Salmeri

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Julia Palacz


Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5008-0975

Abstract

In the monograph that is the subject of this review, Fabio Salmeri discusses the Turin-based composer Gaetano Pugnani (1731–98) and his Violin Concerto in D major. The only known copy of this composition, in the hand of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is currently kept at the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Kraków. Salmeri presents Pugnani as a major figure in the Italian violin school and emphasises his contributions to the development of violin virtuosity. Analysis of his D major Concerto reveals both features of the Classical concerto and an innovative language that foreshadows the next epoch in music history.



Keywords:

Gaetano Pugnani, violin concerto, virtuoso practice, pre-Romanticism, Niccolò Paganini

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2025-12-31

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Palacz, J. (2025). An Unknown Violin Concerto by Gaetano Pugnani as Presented in a Monograph by Fabio Salmeri. Muzyka, 70(4), 149–160. https://doi.org/10.36744/m.4698

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Julia Palacz 

Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5008-0975

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