Giovanni Battista Sammartini
Giovanni Battista Sammartini
Genres: baroque, Classical, italian, composer, early music
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About Giovanni Battista Sammartini
Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700/1701 – 17th January 1775) was an Italian composer, organist, choirmaster, and teacher. Sammartini was born to French emigrant and oboist Alexis Saint-Martin and Girolama de Federici in Milan, in what was Austria during most of his lifetime and Italy today. He was the seventh of eight children. He received musical instruction from his father and wrote his first work in 1725, which was a set of vocal works (now lost). Not long afterwards, in 1728, he acquired the position of maestro di cappella of the Congregazione. He counted Christophe Gluck among his students, and was highly regarded by younger composers including Johann Christian Bach. Sammartini is especially associated with the formation of the concert symphony through both the shift from a brief opera-overture style and the introduction of a new seriousness and use of thematic development that prefigure Franz Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Sammartini’s death in 1775 was unexpected. Although he was highly regarded in his time, his music was quickly forgotten, and Sammartini wasn’t restudied until 1913. Most of his surviving works have been recovered from published editions from outside his hometown of Milan. He is often confused with his brother, Giuseppe Baldassare Sammartini, a composer with a similarly prolific output.
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Giovanni Battista Sammartini — Top 14 songs
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| Giovanni Battista Sammartini | Sinfonia G | ||
| Giovanni Battista Sammartini | Flute Concertino in D major | ||
| Giovanni Battista Sammartini | Memet. Oper | ||
| Giovanni Battista Sammartini | Quintetto per tre violini viola e basso No5 in E major | ||
| Giovanni Battista Sammartini | Symphony for 2 violins viola continuo in D major Ensemble 415 | ||
| Giovanni Battista Sammartini | Sinfonia in A major J C 60 | ||
| Giovanni Battista Sammartini | Sonata in G Major for Violoncello and Continuo | ||
| Giovanni Battista Sammartini | Concerto Grosso in A Major, Op. 2/1 | ||
| Giovanni Battista Sammartini | Op 9 n 1 Concerto for harpischord in A major | ||
| Giovanni Battista Sammartini | Overture (Sinfonia) for 2 horns, 2 violins, viola & bass in G minor | ||
| Giovanni Battista Sammartini | Streichersinfonie c-Moll | ||
| Giovanni Battista Sammartini | Concerti & Sinfonie (Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini) | ||
| Giovanni Battista Sammartini | Streichersinfonie D-Dur | ||
| Giovanni Battista Sammartini | Symphony in A major, 3. Presto assai |