page_title: Giovan Gualberto Brunetti
section_title: Works and musical sources
hierarchical_section_title: Giovan Gualberto Brunetti / Works and musical sources
caption_attribution_description: English: First page of "Litanie per soprano e basso" composed by Giovan Gualberto Brunetti (1706-1787), as keep in a manuscript in Fondo Ricasoli of University of Kentucky in Louisville, dated 1795
context_page_description: Giovan Gualberto Brunetti was an Italian composer.
context_section_description: The Brunetti family often used the same first names for their children, and many of the family members were composers. This complicates the exact identification of the music. At least three of the five children of Giovan Gualberto were musicians (among them became famous Antonio and Giuseppe, himself father of another Antonio) and often Brunetti’s works were attributed to them in the past. Of his musical production, a great amount of sacred music is preserved, much of which is conserved as manuscript copies from the late 1700s. The Duomo Archive (Piccolomini Library and Metropolitan Opera) of Siena (which also preserves his assumed autograph) and the Palatina Library (Biblioteca Palatina) of Parma possess the greatest number of the aforementioned manuscripts. Other cities that conserve copies of Brunetti’s works are Pistoia (in Rospigliosi Music Collection at Archive of the Chapter), Lucca (Diocesan Library “Giuliano Agresti”), Pescia (Archive of the Chapter), Genoa (Paganini Conservatory) and Palermo (Bellini Conservatory). His autographs are found at the Santini-Bibliothek of Münster, and at the Philharmonic Academies of Bologna and Torino, but the most notable number of compositions were rediscovered by the Centro Documentazione Musicale della Toscana (Italian web site) in Pisa: the Historical Musical Archive of the Opera della Primaziale possesses more that 530 compositions by Brunetti, most of which are autographs, while the Musical Archive of the Ordine dei Cavalieri di Santo Stefano conserves 15 works, 8 of which are autographed.  Of his, at the least, seven theatrical operas documented, we have the librettos of five (conserved for the most part at the Cini Foundation of Venice, but also at the National Libraries in Florence, Rome and Cosenza, as well as in the Conservatory in Naples), and only musical fragments (single arias) of two, present in Uppsala (at Universitetsbibliotek «Carolina Rediviva») and at Berkeley (Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library).
caption: First page of a 1795 manuscript, stored in Fondo Ricasoli at the University of Kentucky in Louisville. The music is Litanie per soprano e basso composed by Brunetti.[4]
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