Mostly Mauro Giuliani - A Recital by Franco Fagioli and Pablo Gonzalez Jazey

I haven't listened to all of the songs in this playlist of  a recital consisting mostly of songs of the guitar composer and virtuoso Mauro Giuliani with, so far, one by Domenico Cimarosa arranged by Giuliani.  Pria Che Spunt'in Ciel from Il Matrionio Segreto, an opera I'm not at all familiar with.   I will listen to all of them. 

It was nice to stumble across something that sort of tied yesterday's post about Schubert sung to guitar with the previous posts about male sopranists, I hadn't looked for one. That an artist of Franco Fagioli's status went to the bother of presenting a whole recital of Giuliani songs supports the idea that he was a real composer, not just a specialist in studies for guitar.   He was close to many of the leading composers of the first decades of the 19th century, including Beethoven.   

You can find scores for all of the songs here, as well as just about all of his many compositions.  You'll notice that a lot of his pieces are based on opera, many variations and his sets of "Rossinianae" which are some of his most often played pieces, so it's no surprise he wrote some pretty good songs.  

Notice, too, that Fagioli still had hair back then and no beard.