BARSANTI Old Scots Tunes. Per violino (flauto dolce, traverso o oboe) e basso continuo. Girolamo Musikverlag

Recorder players are familiar with the name Francesco Barsanti and greatly appreciate his six fine sonatas Opus 1 for recorder and basso continuo, whereas other musicians and experts in Baroque music may never even have heard of his name or his works. This may well be because Barsanti – although a versatile and capable composer, instrumental teacher, instrumentalist and copyist, who would certainly have been able to rise to greater fame – preferred to stay out of the limelight. We have very little evidence about the life of Francesco Barsanti. However, thanks to recent research by Jasmin Cameron and Michael Talbot1, we now have some new facts and further conjecture extending beyond what we already know from the historical source according to John Hawkins2. Francesco Maria Barsanti was born in around 1690 in Lucca and first studied Law at the University of Padua without being matriculated. He then taught himself to play the recorder and probably the transverse flute, as well as the oboe

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Aggiornato il 10/06/2026