Pergolesi: Sinfonia in F Major for Double Bass and Piano (edited by Lucas Drew) and a bonus gift (Deep River)

About the Composer

Though only moderately popular in his lifetime, Italian composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi posthumously attained international fame as a leading figure in the rise of Italian comic opera. The final movement of the Pergolesi SINFONIA in F Major was used by Igor Stravinsky as a Double Bass solo in one of the variations in his ballet suite PULCINELLA.

Lucas Drew
Editor, St. Francis Music Publications
Professor Emeritus, University of Miami Frost School of Music

About Lucas Drew

Lucas Drew, after a distinguished career of more than 40 years of teaching and performing is now Professor Emeritus at the University of Miami Frost School of Music and Principal Double Bass Emeritus of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. Also, he is Founder/Artistic Director Emeritus of the Highlands - Cashiers (NC) Chamber Music Festival (1982-1999).

Dr. Drew studied double bass with Allen Warner, Dmitri Shmuklovsky, and Edward Krolick and later, coached with Frederick Zimmermann. He is a graduate of the University of Miami, University of Illinois, and Florida State University. Many of his former students are active in the music profession.