Geminiani

[je-mee-nyah-nee]

noun

1. Francesco c1680–1762, Italian violinist and composer.

Example Sentences

Although he would later be regularly employment as an organist, his contemporary and peer Edward Miller noted his particular talent on the violin: “Never before had we heard the concertos of Corelli, Geminiani and Avison, or the overtures of Haydn performed more chastely, or more according to the intention of the composers than by Mr Herschel.”

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Set to music composed by Francesco Geminiani as arranged and reimagined by Michi Wiancko, the ballet is a joyful expression of taking movement to its limits.

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A violin extravaganza from this early-music orchestra, one that features the ensemble’s four concert masters — Mayumi Hirasaki, Jésus Merino Ruiz, Shunske Sato and Evgeny Sviridov — take the spotlight in concertos by Handel, Bach, Vivaldi, Locatelli and Geminiani.

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This ensemble delivers a program that hops happily across the centuries, with music by Geminiani, Beethoven, Clara Schumann and, most intriguingly, a new piano concerto by Christopher Cerrone, “The Air Suspended.”

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Center director Victor Geminiani says the proliferation of vacation rentals is worsening the state’s housing crisis.

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