Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli

Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (born Montepulciano, Tuscany, circa 1630 - died Madrid, circa 1669/1670) was an Italian composer and violinist.

Little is known of Pandolfi Mealli except that which is mentioned by the annals of the court of Charles Archduke Ferdinand of Habsburg in Innsbruck as employed by the court in 1660. Baroque violinist Enrico Gatti reports that Pandolfi Mealli murdered a colleague in Messina during an argument in a church, after which he fled first to France and then Spain, where he was employed in the Royal Chapel.[1] Of his works, only two collections of sonatas for violin and harpsichord (Op. 3 and Op. 4) have survived, published in 1660; they are at the Civic Museum of Bologna.

References

  1. ^ Interview with Lucie Skeaping. BBC Radio Three Early Music Show 28 May 2011.

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