Baldassari: Sonata No. 1 in F Major

Description

Biographical information on the Roman-born composer Pietro Baldassari is scarce. While his presence in Brescia around 1720 is ascertainable, we lose all traces of him afterwards.

The edition presented here goes back to a copy preserved in Vienna's Nationalbibliothek and which contains a further sonata by Baldassare. The source is not dated but must have been written in the first quarter of the 18th century. The editor's necessary additions are summarized and documented in the afterword.