A Musician who Inspired Mozart
His name evokes Milan and its music in all its nuances.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, on January 15, 1775, Giovanni Battista Sammartini passed away in Milan due to pneumonia. He was a musician to whom “a place of honor in the history of music is reserved not for his qualities as an opera composer or sacred music composer, but for having first sketched the outline of the modern symphony.”[1] Born 74 years earlier in Milan…