Pietro Denis (1720–1790), also known as Pierre Denis, was a French mandolin virtuoso and teacher, and composer. He studied under Giuliano in Naples and established himself in Paris. He is best known for his compositions Sonata for Mandolin & Continuo No. 1 in D major and Sonata No. 3 for Mandolin. He also wrote a mandolin instruction method, Méthode pour apprendre à jouer de la mandoline sans Maître (method to learn how to play mandolin without a teacher), published Paris in 1768.[1][2][3][4][5]
Portrait of Pietro Denis, 1768, taken from the cover of his book Méthode pour apprendre à jouer de la mandoline sans Maître (method to learn how to play mandolin without a teacher).
He wrote another mandolin method, published in Paris in 1792, and was the author also of Four collections of airs for the mandolin; a New system of practical music, issued in Paris in 1747. Denis also wrote a French translation of Tartinf's Tratto delle appogiature si asceudenti che discendeiiti per il violino, under the title of Traite des agremens de la musique, compose par le celebre Giuzeppe Tartini a Padua, et traduit par le Sigr. P.Denis. This volume was published by M. de la Chevardier, Paris.[5]
In his final years, in 1780, he was a music master in a ladies' seminary in Saint Cyr.[5]
Kleine Stücke und Variationen : für zwei Mandolinen oder Mandoline und Mandola (Small pieces and variations: for two mandolins and mandolin and mandola)
Booksedit
Traité de composition musicale
Treaty pleasures of music, containing the origin of the small note, its value, the manner of the place, all the different species of cadences, the way to use them, trembling and biting, use, that we can do, or charms natural modes, the modes artifficiels going to infinity, lan way to form a climax...
^http://www.mandoisland.de/eng_index.html Pietro Denis, Methode Pour apprende à Jouer de la Mandoline Sans Maître
^Mandolin Cafe Forumns, History questions: fouchett
^ abcPhilip J. Bone, The guitar and mandolin, Biographies of celebrated players and composers for these instruments, Schott and Company, London, 1914
^Folias, Which versions of the later Folia have been written down, transcribed or recorded?
^University of Wisconsin Madison Libraries, Catalog, The Mandolin through the ages
External linksedit
The Mandolin Methods by Gabriele Leone, Giovanni Fouchetti and Pietro Denis (18th century)
Page with biography of Denis
January 01, 1970
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