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Girolamo Abos 1715-1760 Cantata Editions listings   Filippo Amadei (Pippo del violoncello) c1665 - c1725 Cantata Editions listings   Carlo Arrigoni b Florence, 5 Dec 1697; d Florence, 18 Aug 1744 Cantata Editions listings   John Bartlet(t) fl.1606-10 Cantata Editions listings

Diogenio Bigaglia b Venice, c1676; d Venice, c1745 Cantata Editions listings   Giovanni Bononcini 1670-1747 Cantata Editions listings Our suggested site for further information   Giulio Caccini 1550 - 1618 Cantata Editions listings   Thomas Campion b London, 12 Feb 1567; d London, 1 March 1620 Cantata Editions listings

Giacomo Carissimi Cantata Editions listings   Carlo Francesco Cesarini c1666 - after 1741 Cantata Editions listings   Giovanni Paolo Colonna 1637 - 1695 Cantata Editions listings   Barone Emanuele d'Astorga 1680 - ?1757 Cantata Editions listings

Sigismondo d'India b Palermo, c1582; d ?Modena, before 19 April 1629 Cantata Editions listings   M. de la Barre Cantata Editions listings   John Dowland 1563 - 1626 Cantata Editions listings   Francesco Durante born Frattamaggiore 31st March 1684 died Naples 30th September 1755 Cantata Editions listings Our suggested site for further information

Nicola Fago 1677 - 1745 Cantata Editions listings   Bernardo Gaffi c.1677 - 1744 Cantata Editions listings   Francesco Gasparini 1668 - 1721 Cantata Editions listings   Geminiano Giacomelli b Piacenza, c1692; d Loreto, 25 Jan 1740 Cantata Editions listings

George Frederick Handel 1685-1759 Cantata Editions listings   Johann Adolph Hasse 1699-1783 Cantata Editions listings Our suggested site for further information   Bach Johann Sebastian organ Cantata Editions listings   Robert Johnson Cantata Editions listings

Niccolo Jommelli b Aversa, 10 Sept 1714; d Naples, 25 Aug 1774 Cantata Editions listings   Leonardo Leo 1694 - 1744 Cantata Editions listings Our suggested site for further information   Antonio Lotti 1666 - 1740 Cantata Editions listings   Francesco Mancini 1672 - 1737 Cantata Editions listings

Benedetto Marcello Cantata Editions listings   Alessandro Melani 1639 - 1703 Cantata Editions listings   Thomas Morley b Norwich, 1557 or 1558; d London, early Oct 1602 Cantata Editions listings   Johann Christoph Pepusch 1667 - 1752 Cantata Editions listings

Giov. Batt. Pergolesi b. Jesi Jan. 1710, d. Napoli Mar. 1736 Cantata Editions listings   Francesco Antonio Pistocchi 1659 - 1726 Cantata Editions listings   Nicola Antonio Porpora b Naples 1686; d. Naples 1768 Cantata Editions listings Our suggested site for further information   Giuseppe Porsile 1680 - 1750 Cantata Editions listings

Henry Purcell b London, Sept 1659; d Westminster, London, 21 Nov 1695 Cantata Editions listings Our suggested site for further information   Phillip Rossetter b 1567/8; d London, 5 May 1623 Cantata Editions listings   Giovanni Felice Sances b Rome, c1600; d Vienna, bur. 12 Nov 1679 Cantata Editions listings   Claudio Saracini b Siena, July 1586; d Mirandola, Sept 1630 Cantata Editions listings Our suggested site for further information

Domenico Natale Sarri(Sarro) 1679 - 1744 Cantata Editions listings   Alessandro Scarlatti born Palermo, 2 May 1660; died Naples, 22 October 1725 Cantata Editions listings Our suggested site for further information   Domenico Scarlatti b Naples, 26 Oct 1685; d Madrid, 23 July 1757 Cantata Editions listings   Sgr Scarlatti Cantata Editions listings

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