Giovanni Martino Cesare (c. 1590 in

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– 6 February 1667 in

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) was a composer and

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player.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." By 1611 (his first publication) he resided as cornetto player at the house of

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(died 1618) at

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, 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 fourteen instrumental

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s of one to six parts with continuo, and fourteen motets.

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*Grove Music {{DEFAULTSORT:Cesare, Giovanni Martino Cornett players 17th-century Italian composers Italian male composers 1590s births 1667 deaths Year of birth uncertain People from Udine 17th-century male musicians Emigrants from the Republic of Venice to the Holy Roman Empire