Giovanni Battista Bassani
- I Madrigalisti Estensi, Benedetta Mazzucato, Giacomo Pieracci, Arianna Stornello, Alice Fraccari, Paolo Davolio, Michele Gaddi, Maximiliano Dante Texeira, Lorenzo Baldini, Gabriele Lombardi, Alice Molinari, Matteo Straffi
Biography
It is thought that this Italian composer, lauded violinist, and organist was the teacher of Corelli. His first oratorios were composed while in Ferrara. Bassani composed in genres that included sonatas, opera, oratorio, masses, concertos and cantatas. Extant works include arias from his opera "Gli amori alla moda". Much of Basani's work is stilted by the conventions of his time but display his verve for the violin. ~ Keith Johnson