Giovanni Battista Brevi

Giovanni Battista Brevi (Bergamo, ca. 1650; Milan, after 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer.

His later collections of cantatas comprised three out of the four publications of Fortuniano Rosati, Modena, the fourth being by count Pirro Albergati.^[1]

Works

• Op. 3 Bizzarrie armoniche, ovvero Sonate da camera a tre stromenti col basso continuo 1693^[2]
• Op. 5 Cantate morali 1695
• Op. 6 La catena d'oro 1696
• Op. 7 Cantate ed'ariette 1697
• Op. 8 Deliri d'amor divino, o cantate a voce sola e continuo (Venice, 1708)

Performing Editions

Cantatas

• Deliciae terrenae: soprano and Basso continuo^[3]
• O spiritus angelici: alto and Basso continuo^[4]
• Catenae terrenae: bass and b.c.^[5]

Recordings

• "Catenae terrenae" on Motetti ed arie Max van Egmond, Ricercar Consort. Ricercar. 1988.
• "O Spiritus Angelici" on Agitata Delphine Galou, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone, Alpha. 2017