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Italian keyboard player, conductor, and musicologist

Ottaviano Tenerani (born 14 February 1969, in Pontedera, Italy) is an Italian keyboard player, conductor, musicologist. He is the leader of Il Rossignolo, an ensemble on period instruments that he founded in 1998 together with the flautist Marica Testi and the recorder and oboe player Martino Noferi.

Biography

Ottaviano Tenerani who has specialized in the interpretation of baroque and classical music, is active both as performer and researcher. He has appeared as conductor and keyboard player in hundreds of concerts and numerous recordings for labels such as Sony Classical. / Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, CPO, Tactus, Brilliant Classics, and Dynamic.

Much involved in musicological research, he has presented modern day first performances of vocal and instrumental music by Alessandro Scarlatti, Georg Friedrich Händel, Antonio Caldara, Johann Joachim Quantz, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Orazio Caccini and Giovanni Battista Martini.

He discovered the serenade Germanico, attributed to Händel, that he recorded with Il Rossignolo in 2011 for Sony Classical. The critical acclaim won by this recording launched further collaboration between Tenerani (with Il Rossignolo) and Sony Classical with the recording of the complete solo sonatas by Georg Friedrich Händel (released in August 2019) and other music from the unedited sacred and secular Italian repertoires.

Teaching

Ottaviano Tenerani is professor of historical keyboard, chamber music and curator of the collection of musical instruments at the Accademia Internazionale d’Organo e Musica Antica Giuseppe Gherardeschi in Pistoia and teach in several master classes and academies. Since 2008, he has had an affiliation with the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Rinaldo Franci in Siena providing master classes in historical performance practice and harpsichord. In the same Conservatory he is involved as conductor in early music orchestral projects

Discography (selective)

Georg Friedrich Händel, Complete solo sonatas, Il Rossignolo, SONY - DHM
Georg Philipp Telemann, Telemann virtuoso, Il Rossignolo, Brilliant Classics
Georg Friedrich Händel, Germanico, Il Rossignolo, SONY - DHM
Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Notturni a quattro, Il Rossignolo, Brilliant Classic - Tactus
Antonio Vivaldi, I concerti per violino et organo obligato / Sonate per flauto diritto, Il Rossignolo, Tactus
Benedetto Marcello, Sonate per flauto e basso op 2 / Opere per clavicembalo, Il Rossignolo, Tactus
AAVV, Le sonate per flauto diritto, flauto traverso e basso, Il Rossignolo, Orfeo
Alessandro Scarlatti, Concerti e Sinfonie, Il Rossignolo, CPO
Giovanni Battista Martini, Sinfonie a quattro, Il Rossignolo, Tactus
Giovanni Battista Martini, Sei Sonate per l’organo e il cembalo, Tactus
Orazio Caccini, Madrigali et Canzonette a cinque voci, Il Rossignolo, EMA
Francesco Maria Veracini, Violin Sonatas, Musica Antiqua Roma, SONY - DHM

Critical editions and Essays

Mozart gioca a dadi, musica e calcolo combinatorio nel XVIII secolo. Sergio Giudici e Ottaviano Tenerani. In "Musica, Scienza e Linguaggio” - Polifonica - ETS - Pisa, 2022
Il temperamento: una questione musicale, scientifica e didattica. Sergio Giudici e Ottaviano Tenerani. In "Musica, Scienza e Linguaggio” - Polifonica - ETS - Pisa, 2022
Lo spinettone firmato Giovanni Ferrini dell'Accademia Internazionale Giuseppe Gherardeschi di Pistoia, in "Il cembalo a martelli da Bartolomeo Cristofori a Giovanni Ferrini - Pendragon, Bologna, 2019
Charles Antoine Campion, L'Etruria fortunata - Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, Wien, 2013
Una serata in Camerata - Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, Wien, 2013
Georg Friedrich Händel (attr.), Germanico - Edizioni Il Rossignolo, Montopoli 2010
Giovanni Battista Sammartini, 7 Notturni a quattro - Armelin Musica, Padova, 2009
Johann Joachim Quantz, 7 Triosonate per Flauto, Violino e Basso Continuo (Flauto e Clavicembalo) - Ut Orpheus, Bologna, 2002
Oratio Caccini Romano, Madrigali et canzonette a cinque voci, a cura di: Ottaviano Tenerani e Marica Testi, San Miniato, 1998.

References

"Sony Classical". Sony Classical.
"Georg Frideric Handel: Germanico World première recording". Händle Germanico. Archived from the original on 2012-09-12. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
"TACTUS catalog".
"Tactus: Giovanni Battista Martini".
"Teleman: Virtuoso".
"Il Germanico « Muse Baroque, musique et arts baroques" (in French). Retrieved 2020-06-17.
"Handel: Germanico". Classical Music. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
"L' opera inedita di Haendel diventa un caso internazionale - la Repubblica.it". Archivio - la Repubblica.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-06-17.
Berg, Jenny. "Musikalischer Seelendeuter | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-17.
"Opera". Classical Music. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
"George Frideric Handel - Complete Solo Sonatas (Il Rossignolo)". George Frideric Handel - Complete Solo Sonatas (Il Rossignolo). Retrieved 2020-06-17.
"Accademia Gherardeschi". Il Rossignolo. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
"Concerto del Dipartimento di Interpretazione Storica - 6 dicembre 2013". www.istitutofranci.com. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
"L'Orchestra del Franci diretta da Tenerani suona Bach ai Rozzi". Siena Free Quotidiano Online (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-06-17.
"FRANCI FESTIVAL 2020". www.istitutofranci.com. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
"Museo di San Colombano Collezione Tagliavini" (PDF). Convegno internazionale di organologia.
"Pendragon - Dettaglio Libro". www.pendragon.it. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
"Hollitzer Verlag: L'Etruria fortunata". www.hollitzer.at. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
"Hollitzer Verlag: Una sera in Camerata - E dell'Arno alto tesoro..." www.hollitzer.at. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
"Quantz, Johann Joachim : 7 Triosonate per Flauto, Violino e Basso Continuo (Flauto e Clavicembalo) - Vol. 1: Triosonata I in Do maggiore - Ut Orpheus Edizioni". www.utorpheus.com. Retrieved 2020-06-17.

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