Giovanni Battista Bassani

Giovanni Battista Bassani (* 1647 in Padua, † October 1, 1716 in Bergamo ) was an Italian violinist and composer.

Life

He received his education in Venice, Bassani there was probably a pupil of Giovanni Legrenzi and Daniele da Castrovillari ( 1617-1659-74 ). Violin lessons he received from Giovanni Battista Vitali. Since 1677 he was a respected member of the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna, the " Principe " he was in 1682. From 1685 he worked as a conductor at the Academia of Ferrara, and from 1688 as organist and director of music at the local cathedral. In 1712 he received the Conductor of Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, which he held until his death.

Bassani also sought to strengthen the development of the violin bow, which until then convex shape was now more stretched and his bow at the frog had a device for tightening and loosening the strings.

Works

He created numerous works of all genres, including 13 operas and oratorios 13, eight of which have been lost. He also composed sacred music for a variety of occupations, including the Acrona Missal a collection of masses and motets (1700 Amsterdam). A copy thereof was in the estate of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Instrumental

• Op 1 Trio Sonatas (12 ) balletti, Correnti, Gighe, e sarabande à Violino e violone, overo Spinetta, con il Violino Secondo à beneplacito ( 1677)
• Op 5 Symphony a due, e tre Instromenti, con il basso continuo per l' organo ( 1683)

Cantatas

• Op 2 Cantate Amorose Musicali à voce sola, opera seconda (Bologna 1680)

Oratories

• L' Esaltazione di S Croce, 1675
• L' Epulone, 1675
• La tromba della divina misericordia, 1676
• L' amore Ingeniero, 1678
• Il mistico Roveto, 1681
• Il Davide punito overo La strage pestilente d' Israele, 1686
• Il Giona ( Ambrosini ), 1689
• Mosè risorto dalle acque, 1694
• Il conte di Bacheville, 1696
• Susanna, 1697
• Gl'impegni del divino amore nel transitory della Beata Caterina Vegri detta di Bologna, 1703
• Il trionfo della Fede, 1704
• La morte delusa, 1703; together with U.K. Brevi, G. A. Perti, G. Bononcini, A. Scarlatti

Operas

• L' amorosa preda di Paride, dramma per musica in 3 acts (1683 Bologna)
• Falaride tiranno d' Agrigento, ( Adriano Morselli ), dramma per musica in 3 acts (1683 Venice)
• L' Alarico, rè de ' Goti, (B. Bonacossi ), dramma per musica in 3 acts (1685 Ferrara)
• Vitige, dramma per musica in 3 acts (1686 Ferrara)
• Agrippina in Baia, 1687
• Gli Amori alla moda, Scherzo melodrammatico in 3 acts (1688 Ferrara)
• Il trionfo di Venere in Ida, Melodramma ( Ferara 1688)
• La Ginevra, infanta di Scozia, dramma per musica in 3 acts ( 1690 Ferrara)
• Le vicende coceio di Nerva, dramma per musica in 3 acts (1691 Ferrara)
• Gli Amori tra gl'odii o sia Il Ramiro in Norvegia, dramma per musica in 3 acts ( 1693 Verona)
• Roderico, Ferrara, 1696
• L' Alarico, 1709
• Armida al campo, Ferrara, 1711