Giovanni Martino Cesare Explained

Giovanni Martino Cesare (c. 1590 in Udine  - 6 February 1667 in Munich) was a composer and cornett player.^{[1] [2]}

By 1611 (his first publication) he resided as cornetto player at the house of Charles, Margrave of Burgau (died 1618) at Günzburg, near Augsburg. In 1615 he became an employee of Duke Maximilian of Bavaria (Munich) as a cornettist, where he wrote his best known collection Musicali melodie (1621). It contains fourteen instrumental canzonas of one to six parts with continuo, and fourteen motets.

Sources

• Grove Music

Notes and References

1. [Willi Apel]
2. A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music - Page 108 Stewart Carter, Jeffery Kite-Powell - 2012 "At the Bavarian court in Munich, the Italian cornettist from Udine, Giovanni Martino Cesare, wrote a collection of sonatas for cornetts and sackbuts that contains one of the only solo sonatas for trombone."