Giovanni Martino Cesare

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 (d.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 14 instrumental canzonas of one to six parts with continuo, and 14 motets.

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1. Willi Apel, Thomas Binkley - Italian violin music of the seventeenth century - Page 33 1990 "About the turn of the seventeenth century, Giovanni Martino Cesare, c.l590(?)-1667, and his brother Giovanni Francesco were active at the court in Vienna. Later Cesare was a trombonist in Udine, then a cornetist in Günzburg (near Augsburg), "
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."

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