biography
pronunciation:
[albairtee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1710–40)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Venice, NE Italy. His music is almost entirely forgotten, but he is remembered as the inventor of the Alberti bass, common in 18th-c keyboard music, in which accompanying chords are split up into figurations based upon each chord's lowest note. |
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