More Eighteenth Century Italian Composers, Vol. XVII

By Daniel Zimmermann

Included are the following: Domenico Sammartini, Giuseppe Sammartini. Domenico dall’Oglio, Nicola Fiorenza, Andrea Basili, Andrea Bernasconi, Carlo Cecere, Padre Giovanni Battista Martini, Pietro Domenico Paradies, Egidio Romualdo Dunij Abaco, Giuseppe Santarelli, Gaetano Latilla, Gioacchino Cocchi, Antonio Besozzi, Carlo Besozzi, Gaetano François Marie Besozzi, Girolamo Besozzi, Giuseppe Besozzi, Alessandro Besozzi, Paolo Girolamo Besozzi,, Gennaro Manna, Giovanni Battista Casali, Giovanni Andrea Fioroni, Pasquale Cafaro, Antonio Maria Mazzoni, Francesco Zappa, Nicola Conforto, Giuseppe Scarlatti, Charles-Antoine Campion, Quirino Gasparini, Giovanni Marco Rutini, Giovanni Battista Cirri, Domenico Fischietti, Giovanni Battista Gervasio, Pasquale Anfossi, Niccolò Piccinni, Domenico Gallo, Pasquale Errichelli, Antonio Maria Gasparo Gioacchino Sacchini, Domenico Maria Angiolo Gasparini, Giuseppe Demachi, Giacomo Tritto, Antonio Tozzi, Andrea Luca Luchesi, Alessandro Felici, Carlo Franchi, and Domenico Cimarosa.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Daniel Zimmermann
• Release date: Aug 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005873257

Daniel Zimmermann

Daniel Zimmermann was born in Merrill, Wisconsin, and grew up in Hustisford, Wisconsin. He was graduated as valedictorian from Northwestern College, Watertown, Wisconsin. His valedictory concerned the ancient philosopher Plotinus. Special honors were third place in an Eta Sigma Phi Greek composition contest and the Doctor Ott award.He was also graduated from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary. After serving as pastor for several years, he became a free lance writer. Because of the outstanding success of his Spanish poetry in Mexico, his biography was included in Who's Who in the Midwest. He is also a former member of American Mensa.He is married to Merian, nee Ecot. The couple is residing in the Philippines.Daniel Zimmermann is the author of short stories and poetry. He also writes non-fiction, especially on literature, history, Christianity, and botany.

Book preview

More Eighteenth Century Italian Composers, Vol. XVII

By Daniel Zimmermann

Chapter 1

Composers Born from 1700 to 1714

Giovanni Battista Sammartini (c.1700-1775)

Milan was Sammartini’s native city. He was born there; he worked there; and he died there.

In 1727 he married Margherita Benna. After bearing at least one child, she died in 1754. Not much later, Sammartini married Rosalinda Acquanio.

Professionally,he served as maestro di cappella at many Milanese churches; he was also an effective music teacher; but his chief claim to fame is the music that he composed.

His surviving output includes a host of excellent symphonies, many of which may be heard online. He also composed a plethora of sonatas, plus marches, string quintets, quartets, minuets, string trios, and a few concertinos.

In addition, he composed, ballets, secular cantatas, sacred cantatas, masses, settings of the Magnificat, etc. Online is an inspiring recording of his setting of the Te Deum.

His operas are few in number. One of them deals with ancient Roman history: L’Agrippina, moglie di Tiberio.

Giuseppe Sammartini (1695-1750)

Giuseppe was the older brother of Giovanni Battista. Like his brother, he was born in Milan; but he did not stay there. His final resting place was far-away London.

His father was the French oboist Alexis Saint-Martin. So it is not surprising that both Giuseppe and his brother knew how to play the oboe. Giuseppe’s skill was phenomenal.

Note that Sammartini is an Italian equivalent to his father’s surname. Separated into its component parts, it becomes San Martini, an exact equivalent of Saint-Martin.

Early in life, Giuseppe and his brother played together, first in the orchestra of San Celso in Milan, then in 1720 in the orchestra of the Regio Ducal Teatro. About eight or nine years later, Giuseppe bid his brother farewell and began to travel, first to Brussels and finally to London.

Here he played in Handel’s opera orchestra. He also became music teacher in the household of Frederick, the Prince of Wales.

He composed sonatas for various instruments or instrument combinations, such as his sonatas for flute and basso continuo and his sonatas for oboe and basso continuo.

He also wrote ballets and a setting of Le Jugement de Paris.

Some of his compositions were childlike music for the children of the Prince of Wales.

He composed concerti grossi, and concerti for various solo instruments. Of special significance is his Concerto in F major for recorder, strings, and continuo, a recording of which may be heard online.

Some of his other concertos may be heard online, including four organ concertos. At least they are called organ concertos in the online recording. Another