A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers. 15
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Bassani, Giovanni Battista, born at Padua about 1657, and died at Ferrara 1716. He is generally accorded the honour of being the violin-master of Corelli. Bassani was a man of extensive knowledge and abilities, having been not only a successful composer for the church, the theatre, and the chamber, between the years 1680 and 1703, but an excellent fiddle player. His sonatas for the violin manifest a knowledge of the fingerboard and bow which appears in the works of no other composer anterior to Corelli. His other compositions include songs, masses, motets, psalms, cantatas, and operas, all of which were held in high esteem.
'Baton, Charles, a performer on the vielle, or hurdy-gurdy, and wrote compositions for this instrument. He also published a " Memoiie sur la Vielle in D la re" in the Mercure, 1757.
Batta, Pierre, born at Maastricht, August, 1795, died at Brussels November 1876. He was a professor of the violoncello in the Brussels Conservatoire.
' Batta, Alexandre, son of the above, born at Maastricht, July, 1816. He studied first with his father, afterwards with Platel at the Brussels Conservatoire, and finally settled in Paris. His compositions are romances for 'cello, fantasies, variations, etc.
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