Francesco Maria Bazzani
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Francesco Maria Bazzani or Bassani (c.1650-c.1700) was an Italian baroque composer.
Francesco was a member of the musical Bassani family of whom Giovanni Battista Bassani
is the best remembered today. He is to be distinguished from another Francesco Maria Bassani two generations earlier (fl.
1621), nephew of the viola da gamba composer Oratio Bassani, who kept a pedagogic notebook Regole di contrapunto, which contains eight pieces, seven of which are probably by his uncle Oratio.
He was maestro di cappella of the Duomo di Piacenza
from 1673
Upon the death of his sister and her husband, a musician named Keller from Germany, Francesco adopted his nephew Fortunato Chelleri
and trained him as a musician.
Francesco was a member of the musical Bassani family of whom Giovanni Battista Bassani
Giovanni Battista Bassani
Giovanni Battista Bassani was an Italian composer, violinist, and organist.Battista was born in Padua. It is thought that he studied in Venice under Daniele Castrovillari and in Ferrara under Giovanni Legrenzi. Charles Burney and John Hawkins claimed he taught Arcangelo Corelli, but there is no...
is the best remembered today. He is to be distinguished from another Francesco Maria Bassani two generations earlier (fl.
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Floruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...
1621), nephew of the viola da gamba composer Oratio Bassani, who kept a pedagogic notebook Regole di contrapunto, which contains eight pieces, seven of which are probably by his uncle Oratio.
He was maestro di cappella of the Duomo di Piacenza
Duomo di Piacenza
Piacenza Cathedral , is a Roman Catholic church in Piacenza, Italy. It was built between 1122 and 1233 and is one of the most valuable examples of a Romanesque cathedral in northern Italy...
from 1673
Upon the death of his sister and her husband, a musician named Keller from Germany, Francesco adopted his nephew Fortunato Chelleri
Fortunato Chelleri
Fortunato Chelleri was a Baroque Kapellmeister and composer.- Biography :...
and trained him as a musician.
Works
Operas- Ottone il Grande (Parma 1670) is cited as an early example of an opera seriaOpera seriaOpera seria is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to c. 1770...
where a minor comic character, in this case the servant Lenno, returns at the end of Acts 1 and 2 of the opera to enable a comic ballet to be performed. - L'inganno trionfato overo La disperata speranza ravvivata ne' successi di Giacopo Quinto di Scozia e Maddalena di Francia, Parma (1673) libretto: Oratio Francesco Roberti