Antonio Lotti

Antonio Lotti was an Italian Baroque composer of sacred and secular music. He was one of the top composers in Venice in the early 18th century and an important influence on his younger contemporaries, which included Bach, Handel, and Zelenka. He was born in 1667 in Venice, and while he was still a baby, his family moved to Hanover, where his father began an appointment as Kapellmeister. Later in 1682, he moved with his family to Venice, where he studied music with Lodovico Fuga and Giovanni Legrenzi at St. Mark's Basilica. Lotti's first professional appointment began in 1689, ...