Member Dr Jerry O’Sullivan plays Giovanni Stephano Carbonelli’s Preludium in D minor from the Craxton-Moffat collection of old keyboard music. It was composed around 1722 and is in two parts:-
I. Adagio sonoramente
II. Allegro
Giovanni Stephano Carbonelli (1699/1700-1773), although hardly remembered today, was one of the leading Italian violinist-composers active in London during the era of Handel. A pupil of Corelli in Rome, he arrived in London in or before 1719.He led the orchestra at the Haymarket Opera House in 1721 and from 1723 the orchestra of Drury Lane. He subsequently became a successful freelance violinist. Converting to Anglicanism, Carbonelli married in 1730; in 1735 he was naturalized under the name of John Stephen Carbonell. His main patron was John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland, to whom, in 1729, he dedicated his best known surviving music, a privately published set of twelve violin sonatas entitled Sonate da camera a violino e violone o cembalo. He eventually gave up music to become a wine importer and in 1759 became purveyor of wines to the King.
Jerry O’Sullivan studied medicine at the University of Glasgow. While an undergraduate, he obtained the LRAM and ARCM piano teaching diplomas. His teachers were Julia Ommer, Michael Gough Matthews (a member of the Club) and Eva Bernathova. He became a Senior Lecturer in Histopathology at St George’s Hospital Medical School and then a Consultant Histopathologist at St Richard’s Hospital, Chichester. He is a great supporter of piano playing at the Club, and a frequent performer at our St Cecilia Day’s Members concerts.
[Notes by Music Committee member Mr David R F Thomas with a contribution by Dr O’Sullivan.]
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Mr John A Wilson performing a specially recorded harpsichord piece by going to this link: .