Giovan Battista Brunori

Very little is known about the life of Giovan Battista Leonetti. He was born in Crema and it is likely that he received his musical education from Giovanni Battista Caletti-Bruni. The latter was the father of Francesco Cavalli, who was to become the central figure in music life in Venice after the death of Claudio Monteverdi. The first - and only - book of madrigals by Leonetti is dedicated to Caletti. This collection also contains two pieces by him, one of them the 'balletto pastorale' Or sì che 'l vago aprile. The booklet doesn't indicate which is the other.

In 1612, the Venetian editor Giacomo Vincenti accepted for publication the only work by Fergusio that is known to survive, the Motetti e Dialogi per concertar a una fino à novi voci, con il suo Basso continuo per l'Organo. Apparently he thirty-year-old Fergusio intended this publication to be the prelude to a promising artistic and editorial career. Instead, his musical career was cut short. Painful arthritis "spreading to the joints in his hands" rendered him "unable to play the organ" and "took away his will to compose and to listen to music."

Giovan Battista Viotti - Violin Concertos Nos. 22 & 24; Meditazione in Preghiera (2013) {Decca}
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Outre son talent d’instrumentiste, Viotti fut un compositeur prolifique, écrivant principalement pour le violon. Le chef d’orchestre et violoniste italien Guido Rimonda se propose aujourd’hui de nous faire découvrir, à travers une série de 15 disques, l’ensemble de ses Concertos pour violon. Ceux-ci eurent une influence majeure sur cette forme musicale au cours du XIXe siècle romantique.