Francesco Maria Bassano

Italian Baroque classical music composer (f. 1610), nephew of the viola da gamba composer Oratio Bassani, who kept a pedagogic notebook Regole di contrapunto, which contains eight pieces, seven of which are probably by his uncle Oratio. NOT to be confounded with Francesco Maria Bazzani or Bassani (c. 1650 – c. 1700) a later Italian baroque composer, member of the musical Bassani family.