Giovanni Battista Fontana (composer)
Giovanni Battista Fontana | |
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Born | 1589 Brescia, Italy |
Died | 1630 Padua, Italy | (aged 40–41)
Nationality | Italian |
Occupation(s) | Composer, Violinist |
Era | Early Baroque |
Giovanni Battista Fontana (1589–1630) was an early Baroque Italian composer and violinist.
Fontana was born in Brescia, and worked there and in Rome, Venice, and Padua. He died in Padua during the plague of 1629–31.
Nearly all information on Fontana comes from the preface by Fr. Giovanni Battista Reghino to his posthumously published 18 (sometimes incorrectly stated 12)[where?] sonatas (Sonate a 1.2.3. per il violino, o cornetto, fagotto, chitarone, violoncino o simile altro istromento, Venice: Bartolomeo Magni, 1641). They are among the earliest sonatas of this form, consisting of six sonatas for solo violin/cornetto with continuo and 12 sonatas for one to three violins and continuo, the latter group often including a demanding concertante part for bassoon or cello.
"An atto di morte dated 7 September 1630 for a 'Zan Batta Fontana' aged 50, is the only one among the Paduan death registers of 1625–30 for a person bearing that name" (Dunn 2014).
References
- Dunn, Thomas D. 2014. "Fontana, Giovanni Battista". Grove Music Online, edited by Deane Root (1 July; accessed 17 July 2017).
External links
- Free scores by Giovanni Battista Fontana (composer) at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Sheet music at freescores.com
- Biography
- Giovanni Battista Fontana: Sonatas for one, two, and three parts with basso continuo by Thomas D. Dunn at Google Books
- Two versions of Sonata XIII at youtube.com [1] [2]
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