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Giovanni Battista Fontana
Person · male · Brescia · born 1589 · died 1630 · recording since 1996
Italian Baroque composer and violinist
Also known as Giovanni Battista, detto Giovanni Battista del Violino Fontana · ジョヴァンニ・バッティスタ・フォンタナ
Timeline
5 events▣ Album 2◦ Birth 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1
1580s
1630s
1990s
· Debut release
Debut release: Sonatas
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
source: musicbrainz
2010s
Biography
English biography153 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1343984838
Biography
Giovanni Battista Fontana (1589–1630) was an early Baroque Italian composer and violinist.
Fontana was born in Brescia, and worked there and in Rome, Venice, and Padua. He died in Padua during the plague of 1629–31.
Nearly all information on Fontana comes from the preface by Fr. Giovanni Battista Reghino to his posthumously published 18 (sometimes incorrectly stated 12) sonatas (Sonate a 1.2.3. per il violino, o cornetto, fagotto, chitarone, violoncino o simile altro istromento, Venice: Bartolomeo Magni, 1641). They are among the earliest sonatas of this form, consisting of six sonatas for solo violin/cornetto with continuo and 12 sonatas for one to three violins and continuo, the latter group often including a demanding concertante part for bassoon or cello.
"An atto di morte dated 7 September 1630 for a 'Zan Batta Fontana' aged 50, is the only one among the Paduan death registers of 1625–30 for a person bearing that name" (Dunn 2014).
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 11 | 61.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 2 | 78.8th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 5 | 78.8th |
| Recording span (years) | -366 | 0.9th |
| Genres | 3 | 80.4th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (2 release groups · 2 studio albums)
Albums · 2
1996 · studio album
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Tracklist · 30 tracks · 2:25:50
Disc 11Sonata no. 26:172Sonata no. 45:153Sonata no. 146:044Sonata no. 75:295Sonata no. 95:376Sonata no. 115:037Sonata no. 13:468Sonata no. 125:249Sonata no. 87:5510Sonata no. 135:1811Sonata no. 34:4112Sonata no. 106:3513Sonata no. 165:13Disc 21Sonata a 2 violini4:302Capriccio a 24:003Sonata a 3 'Il Corisino'4:094Sonata a 33:255Sonata no. 154:446Sonata a 32:227Gagliarda a 31:448Sonata a 24:229Sonata no. 175:1610Sonata a 3 'E tanto tempo hormai'3:4711Sonata no. 66:0712Sonata a 43:5413Sonata a 36:0014Sonata a 24:1115Sonata no. 55:0416Capriccio a 43:4417Sonata no. 185:54Sonate a Violino ed altri strumenti
2014 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 51:20
1Sonata undecima a due violini col basso7:362Sonata 4 a violino solo e basso5:193Sonata 1 a flauto solo col basso3:564Sonata 5 a violino sol e basso5:425Sonata ottava a due violini col basso5:526Sonata 2 a violino solo e basso6:407Sonata 3 a flauto solo col basso4:578Sonata 6 a violino solo e basso6:199Sonata settima a due violini col basso4:59
Stats & PK
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| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 11 | 61.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 2 | 78.8th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 5 | 78.8th |
| Recording span (years) | -366 | 0.9th |
| Genres | 3 | 80.4th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Fontana_%28composer%29biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
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Wikidata: Q767958 · MusicBrainz: 6c685349-1f88-497a-b0e3-407d1bc9a761