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Composer: Eligio Celestino (1739-1812)
Work: Sonata (F Major) for the violin from 'Six solos for the violin and a bass for the harpsichord or violoncello ... op. 2' (1774)
Performers: Daniel Pintеño (violin); Concеrto 1700

Sonata for the violin (1774)
1. Largo 0:00
2. Allegro 3:07
3. Minuetto 10:03

Painting: Anton Domenico Gabbiani (1652-1726) - Portrait of Three Musicians of the Medici Court (1687)
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Map: Antonio Zatta (1722-1797) - Il Pisano (1783)
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Eligio (Ligi) Celestino [Celestini, Cellistino, Coelestini]
(Pisa, 20 March 1739 - Ludwigslust, 24 January 1812)

Italian violinist and composer. Nothing is known from his youth. Charles Burney heard him in Rome in 1770, and considered him the best Roman violinist of the period. In 1776 he began to travel, and settled in 1781 at Ludwigslust where he became leader of the court orchestra of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and his English wife, Sarah Stanton (1749-1798), became a singer at that court. Because of the ill-health of the Kapellmeister Antonio Rosetti, he had occasionally conducted the orchestra by late 1791. After Rosetti's death in 1792 he took complete charge, until in 1803, also for reasons of health, he was replaced by the assistant Louis Massonneau. He remained active as leader of the orchestra until his death. When sixty years of age, he came to England where he was hailed in London as the greatest violinist of his time. As a composer, he published several sets of sonatas, solos and duets as well as arias, overtures and symphonie