Baroque
Giovanni Francesco Milanta
1607–1651 · Parma · Italian composer and organist
Giovanni Francesco Milanta was born in Parma on 1 March 1607, into an influential family who lived near what is today the Oratorio di Santa Lucia in that city. The date of his death is not known with certainty; he is thought to have lived beyond 1651.
In 1651 he was working as organist and maestro di cappella in Asola, a fortified town in the Venetian domain close to Mantua. His printed output was published in Venice between 1649 and 1651: masses, psalms and motets with sinfonias, a second book of motets with litanies, and a first book of madrigals with canzonettas and sonnets of a representative character.
Milanta appears in the reference works as the author of salve settings and several litanies, although little is known about the course of his career.
Notable works and achievements
- Misse, salmi e motetti con sinfonie, op.1 (Venice, 1649)
- Il secondo libro de motetti (Venice, 1651)
- Il primo libro de madrigali, op.3 (Venice, 1651)
- Salve regina and various litanies