Giovanni Battista Fontana

Giovanni Battista Fontana helped shape early instrumental writing in the Italian Baroque. His sonatas for violin and other instruments show a repertory moving beyond vocal models toward idiomatic instrumental expression. Fontana’s music belongs to the generation that prepared the ground for later violin writing by composers such as Corelli and Vivaldi.

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  Only 18 sonatas survived to be the only proof of the maestro's life

  Giovanni Battista Fontana was a composer and violinist in the early Baroque period. Unfortunately, only a couple of...