
Also known as Battistin
Italian-French composer and cellist
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(b 1680; d Paris, 8 Dec 1755). Italian composer and cellist of German descent. He called himself ‘Florentin’, although Lesure gives Livorno as his birthplace. In the libretto of Rodrigo in Algeri (Naples, 1702), a reworking of Albinoni’s L’inganno innocente, he was called ‘virtuoso della Contessa di Lemos’. His appearance in Paris was marked by the publication of an aria in Ballard’s Recueil d’airs sérieux of 1705. He lived well at the hôtel of his patron, the Prince of Carignan, until the princ
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· 2012 · cited 65,105x
· 1991 · cited 29,946x
· 2016 · cited 22,921x
· 2020 · cited 22,793x
· 1977 · cited 19,649x
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