Cavalier Giovanni Battista Buonamente

Giovanni Battista Buonamente was among the most original and inventive Italian composers of the seventeenth century. Peter Allsop reveals his importance as part of a tradition that stands in direct antithesis to that of the Corellian sonata today regarded as the ''norm''. This development is traced in a series of likely teacher-pupil relationships from Salamone Rossi to Marco Uccellini, the most ...