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Nicola Matteis, Gli Incogniti, Amandine Beyer · 2009.

The role of Nicola Matteis in the adoption of an Italianate violin style in seventeenth- century England, clearly acknowledged by contemporary commentators.

Nicola Matteis — Diverse bizzarrie Sopra la Vecchia Sarabanda ò pur Ciaccona · 23 items · 68 saves.

I just adore Matteis's "Diverse bizzarrie" -- probably his most famous piece -- but all the music on this CD is enjoyable, if not as sublime as that.

Matteis had found his market and the available evidence would seem to point to him not wishing to vary the recipe which had provided him with such success.

Nicola Matteis — Diverse bizzarrie Sopra la Vecchia Sarabanda ò pur Ciaccona · 23 items · 68 saves....

Nicola Matteis

Italian composer (c. 1650 – after 1713)

Nicola Matteis (Matheis) (c.

1650 – after 1713^[1]) was the earliest notable Italian Baroqueviolinist in London, whom Roger North judged in retrospect "to have been a second to Corelli," and a composer of significant popularity in his time, though he had been utterly forgotten until the later 20th century.^[2]

Very little is known of his early life, although Matteis was probably born in Naples, describing himself as 'Napolitano' in several of his works.

He came to London in the early 1670s and according to the diarist Roger North, had a city merchant as a sponsor, who schooled him in the ways of currying favor from the gentry (by allowing them to accompany him in parlor recitals and other minor performances).^[3]John Evelyn reports in his diary for 19 November 1674, the earliest notice of Matteis, "I heard that stupendious Violin Signor Nichola (with other rare Musitians) whom certainly never