Sonate a tre, due violini e violone, col basso per l'organo, composte da Antonio Luigi Baldassini. Opera secunda. In Roma, MDCXIX.Nella stamperia di Gio: Giacomo Komarek Bohemo: Alla Fontana di Trevi. Baldassini (Baldacini) published two sets of trio sonatas in Rome in the 1690s. Nothing further is known about him, except that he is described as "from Fabriano".
A favourite song of General Wolfe, allegedly sung by him at Quebec the night before his death. But the legend relies on an inexact reading of the description in Krifft's "Seige of Quebec, a sonata" (c. 1797): "A favorite song of General Wolfe's & sung the evening before the engagement wherein he was killed". The present harmonization is that of Krifft, who completed "The seige of Quebec" after the majority had been composed by Kotzwara, before...
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