Giovanni Salvatore was a Neapolitan composer and organist.

Salvatore is thought to have studied under Giovanni Maria Sabino

Giovanni Maria Sabino

Giovanni Maria Sabino was an Italian composer, organist and teacher .G.M. Sabino was born in Turi, into a family of musicians and composers. He was brother of Antonio Sabino and uncle of Francesco Sabino. At the age of 14 he went to Naples to study music under Prospero Testa. From 1610-1613 he...

 and Erasmo Bartoli at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples. He was first organist of Saints Severino and Sossio, then maestro di cappella at San Lorenzo Maggiore (Naples)

San Lorenzo Maggiore (Naples)

San Lorenzo Maggiore is a church in Naples, Italy. It is located at the precise geographic center of the historic center of the ancient Greek-Roman city, at the intersection of via San Gregorio Armeno and via dei Tribunali...

. From 1662 to 1673 he taught at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini, then moved to be maestro di cappella of the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo.

Works

• Requiem - Missa defunctorum
• Mass and vespers
• Messa della Domenica
• Magnificat 5 voices and two violins

Polychoral motets:

• Audite coeli for 4 choirs
• Song of the three boys - Canticum trium puerorum, for 4 choirs 1657
• Confitebor for 2 choirs
• Credidi for 4 choirs

Keyboard works
Canzoni for Four Viols
Secular arias

Recordings

• Salvatore: Messa della Domenica. Ricercari a quattro voci. Toccate. Canzoni francesi. Fabio Bonizzoni. Schola Stirps Jesse Glossa 921501
• Magnificat a 5 voci con violini. Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini
  Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini
  The Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini is an early music ensemble based in Naples and dedicated to the recovery of Neapolitan musical heritage, primarily from the baroque era....
  
  dir. Florio Symphonia.