Giovanni Battista Sammartini (jan 1, 1701 – jan 1, 1775)

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Giovanni Battista Sammartini was both the music director at the Milan Cathedral and a leading opera composer. At first he adapted his operatic symphonies for use at concerts, but later he wrote them specificaly for these events. During the eighteenth century, Milan was under AUstrian rule, along with teh rest of northern Italy. Musical developments from there spreead rapidly to Vienna, the Habsburg capital, and then outward to other cities and courts. Concerts with brilliant orchestral offerings became sites of conspicuous aristocratic, later public, musical consumption throughout the empire.

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