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Born: c1657 - Padua, Italy |
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Giovanni Battista Bassani was an Italian composer, violinist, and organist. It is thought that Battista studied in Venice under Daniele Castrovillari and in Ferrara under Giovanni Legrenzi. Charles Burney and John Hawkins claimed he taught Arcangelo Corelli, but there is no solid evidence for this assertion. He was an organist at the Accademia della Morte in Ferrara from 1667, but had probably left by 1675. He published his first music in 1677; the title page calls him maestro of music at the Confraternità della Morte in Finale Emilia, not far from Modena. He was maestro di cappella at Duke Alessandro II della Mirandola's court at 1680, and was elected principe at the Accademica Filarmonica in Bologna. He became maestro di cappella at the Accademia della Morte in Ferrara in 1683, and then maestro di cappella at Ferrara Cathedral in 1686. For his contributions to the musical life of Ferrara, he was often called "Bassani of Ferrara". He wrote 76 liturgically ordered services for use at Ferrara Cathedral between 1710 and 1712. He became director of music at S Maria Maggiore in Bergamo in 1712, and also taught at the Congregazione di Carità in the same city until his death. |
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J.S. Bach Connection |
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About 1736-1740 J.S.Bach called upon an anonymous scribe (perhaps his son Gottfried Heinrich Bach, 1724-1763) to copy the entire contents of Bassani's Acroama missale (Augsburg, 1709), which consisted of six masses, each with Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, and Sanctus. Later, in 1747-1748, J.S.Bach himself composed ex novo the intonation (Credo in unum Deum) for the fifth of these. This brief composition (16 bars in length) in F major for four voices, instruments, and continuo (BWV 1081) follows the style of the collection and introduces the same plainchant intonation that J.S.Bach used in the Symbolum Nicenum of his Mass in B minor (BWV 232). |
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Source: Wikipedia Website (from Smith/Vanscheeuwijck, "Giovanni Battista Bassani". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians online); Oxford Composer Companions J.S. Bach (OUP, 1999, Editor: Malcom Boyd, Article author: Alberto Basso) |
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Works arranged / copied / performed by J.S. Bach |
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J.S. Bach composed Intonation Credo in unum Deum ( BWV 1081) for Mass in F major by J.B. Bassani (the 5th Mass in Bassani's Acroama missale (Augsburg, 1709), which consisted of six masses) - performed by J.S. Bach. in Leipzig 1747-1748 |
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Links to other Sites |
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HOASM: Giovanni Battista Bassani |
Giovanni Battista Bassani (Answers.com) |
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Bibliography |
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C. Wolff : Der stile antico in der Musik Johann Sebastian Bachs (Wiesbaden, 1968). |
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