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Giovanni Battista Sammartini




Sammartini's works are referred to, in publications or recordings, either by the Opus Number they received in his lifetime, or by the J-C numbers they receive in the Jenkins-Churgin catalog referred to below. Newell Jenkins edited some of Sammartini's works, including a Magnificat, for the first time (he was also an editor of works by Vivaldi, Paisiello and Boccherini among others).

He is often confused with his brother, Giuseppe (1695 – 1750), a composer with a similarly prolific output (and the same first initial).


SELECTED WORKS


  • Operas

  • ---Memet, a drama in three acts

  • Sonatas

  • ---For organ

  • ---For cello

  • ---For violin

  • ---For flute

  • ---Trio sonatas (for flute, violin and continuo, for example)

  • Concertos

  • ---For cello and piccolo

  • ---For flute

  • ---For violin

  • Symphonies

  • ---Some seventy



REFERENCES

Churgin, Bathia and Jenkins, Newell. ''Thematic Catalog of the Works of Giovanni Sammartini: Orchestral and Vocal Music''. Cambridge: published for the American Musicological Society by Harvard University Press, 1976. ISBN 0674877357.

Cattoretti, Anna, ed., ''Giovanni Battista Sammartini and his musical environment'', Brepols, Turnhout, 2004. ISBN 2-503-51233-x.