Mascitti/ Quartetto Vanvitelli - Sonate a Violino Solo E BassoIn 1738 the acclaimed violinist and composer Michele Mascitti (1664 1760) published in Paris his ninth collection of sonatas. The seventy four year old Neapolitan musician was at the end of his long and celebrated career, but not of his creative powers. Dedicated to the Crozat family, which was to be Mascitti's patron until the end of his life, the twelve sonatas for violin and bass op. 9 are fine examples of the graceful blend of Italian and French

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an eminent specialist in the music of the period and a great lover of pictorial art

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