Cavalier Giovanni Battista Buonamente
Subtitle: Franciscan Violinist
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: May 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781840146271
Subjects: Composers & musicians; String instruments; Instruction & Study - Composition; Composers; Biography / Autobiography; Music; d. 1642; Italy; General; Buonamente, Giovanni Battista,; History & Criticism - General; Biography
First sentence: Among those Italian composers of instrumental music flourishing in the third decade of the seventeenth century, the little-known Italian violinist, Giovanni Battista Buonamente may seem an unlikely subject for special treatment since only the barest outline of his life survives, and much of his apparent musical output is lost.