Massimiliano Neri

As the son of the musician who served in Germanic courts, it followed that Neri would follow an identical route. Massimiliano was the organist at St. Mark’s cathedral in Venice for two decades (1644-1664) while also providing as the organist of SS Giovanni and Paolo from ’44-46 and ’57-64. Provided a posture of nobility from the Hapsburg courtroom, Neri offered as the professional of music for an orphanage in Venice and by the finish of 1664 was portion as the Kapellmeister in Cologne. Musically, Neri was an instrumentalist who constructed sonatas for the cornet, recorder, bassoon, trombone, and theorbos. A few of his functions were constructed for instrumental ensembles & most accentuated fugues, virtuoso phrases, elegant adagios, polychoral methods, recurring passages and concertino groupings. The majority of his functions are lost therefore the best thing that may be mentioned about Neri’s contribution is normally that he was a definitive forerunner in the introduction of the concerto.