ENRICO GATTI BRINGS TO LIFE
A SET OF 12 UNPUBLISHED CHAMBER SONATAS
ATTRIBUTED TO ARCANGELO CORELLI 
After working for more than one and a half year - in cooperation with Prof. Guido Olivieri (The University of Texas, Austin, USA) - on an old Italian manuscript preserved in Assisi, Enrico Gatti is quite sure about the right attribution of those short sonatas, most probably written in Bologna when Corelli was only 16 or 17 years old. They could have served for the admission into the famous "Accademia Filarmonica" in Bologna, which Arcangelo (born in Fusignano, 1653) entered in 1670.
Their form is in 3 movements: a prelude and 2 dances, more often a Allemanda (or Balletto) and a Corrente (or Gavotta or Giga) in a style which appears close to that of G.B.Vitali and G.M.Bononcini, but already showing many personal features and even themes that we can find in Corelli's later published triosonatas.
The range of the used keys is wide: 11 different keys, and their disposal has a symmetric plan.
The idiomatic writing for the violin is sometime quite demanding because of its multiple stops, a detail which clearly shows how this music was not intended to be published but was supposed to be used only through a manuscript, since - in many cases - the movable types of XVII century could not allow a complete notation.
The watermark with the capital letters GAS (Giovanni Antonio Sassi of Bologna, beginning of the XVIII century) confirms the Bolognese origin of the manuscript, which was probably copied by the franciscan monk Giuseppe Maria Galli, a cello player, and also contains a copy of Corelli's famous op.V sonatas.
The rediscovered chamber sonatas from Assisi were already recorded by Enrico Gatti and Ensemble Aurora: the CD, published by GLOSSA, will probably be available before summer 2014.
The music will be published in 2014 by LIM (Libreria Musicale Italiana) both in facsimile and in a critical edition prepared by Enrico Gatti with an introductory essay by Guido Olivieri.