Pietro Sammartini (1636-1701) - Sinfonia a due violini, e liuto, e basso di viola (1688)

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Composer: Pietro Sammartini (1636-1701)
Work: Sinfonia (VI) a due violini, e liuto, e basso di viola ... opera seconda (1688)
Performers: Ensemble Alаmіré

Painting: Bartolomeo Bettera (1639-c.1688) - Still Life with Musical Instruments
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Pietro Sammartini [San Martino, Sanmartini]
(Florence, 18 September 1636 - Florence, 1 January 1701)

Italian composer, organist and teacher. He firstly studied in a Florence music school before being ordained a priest. Then he traveled to Rome, Bologna and Arezzo where he worked as a musician. In 1659 he came back to Florence as vicemaestro di cappella of the cathedral, tooking over the official maestro di cappella post in 1686. He remained there the rest of his life. Also in Florence he served the Medici court as a musician, mainly as a lutenist and keyboard player. In 1692 he was appointed member of the prestigious Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna. As a composer, his extant output is mainly sacred but currently he is known by his 'Sinfonie a due violini, e liuto, e basso di viola ... opera seconda (1688)'. Among his lost works is documented at least seven operas, an oratorio, a mass entitled 'Veni sponsa Christi’ and much more sacred and instrumental music. He was not related to brothers Giuseppe and Giovanni Battista Sammartini.