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Pietro Gianotti
2+ albums
18th centuryfrench
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Pietro Gianotti (c. 1700, Lucca - 9th June 1765, Paris) was a French-Italian composer and contrabassist. Little is known of his early musical education, but in 1728 he appeared in Paris, where he published his first set of violin sonatas. By 1739 he was employed as contrabassist with the Académie royale de musique, as well as taking students such as Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny. In 1749 he began to appear at the Concerts spirituels as well. In 1759 he published a treatise, Le guide du compositeur, which is based upon the theory of his teacher Jean-Philippe Rameau. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.