Welcome to Viola D'Amore

Updated Dec 2008

• Georgi's playing is superb. Heather Miller Lardin, EMA Summer 2008

This website was set up with the purpose of fostering a wider understanding of the viola d'amore and its repertoire. This site is offered with the understanding that the music downloaded is for personal or educational use only, and is not to be reproduced for profit. Furthermore, the information contained herein is the best I was able to assemble, but I am sure there is more to learn about this beautiful but complicated instrument. This site is reworked to promote my current recordings, Bis 1535, and Bis 1555, as well as other efforts on behalf of the viola d'amore.  Bis 1675, vol. 3 of Ariosti's complete music for viola d'amore is now also released, Dec. 2008. You may buy copies from me, please do. See the Stockholm sonatas vol. 3 page for details. Or, you may download the albums directly from the following mps sites:

Amazonmp3 | ClassicsOnline | eClassical | eMusic | iTunes

I hope that Vol. 3 will be available for downloads shortly.  For free, have a listen to a very recent video of a rare duet for two violas d'amore: http://www.theoryofpaul.net/index/gfx/metropolitan_huberty_lq.mov

Click Here to download the tracks from my second album!

_{Click on the picture to visit a site where you can download the tracks!}

This terrific photo was taken by Colin Savage, who didn't get the credit he deserved in the CD notes. Sorry, Colin. My site is to help musicians overcome two of the big stumbling blocks to the wider use of the viola d'amore, finding instruments, and obtaining viola d'amore music together with the knowledge needed to decipher it.
You may e-mail questions about the history and repertoire of the viola d'amore, comments about particular pieces of music for viola d'amore, to thomasgeorgi@rogers.com.
Thanks to all of the many visitors who have contributed questions and comments. I have been amazed at the depth of knowledge of the repertoire I have found on the web.