Robert Browning, "il maestro di S. Marco" - a study of the musical structure of "a tocata of Galupp's "

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Abstract: On first reading "A TOCCATAOF GALUPPl'S" one is puzzled at the misleading title. How can Galuppi have his name connected with the form of the toccata when this latter had its birth in the 16th. century and its splendour in the seventeenth, while Galuppi lived in the elghteenth century? Besides, though Baldassare Galuppi came to be a "maestro di S. Marco", his fame is due to compositions for buffo opera and mainly for the sonatas.