Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697-1763) - Concerto (in G) per il Violoncello obligato

★ Follow music ► Composer: Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697-1763) Work: Concerto (in G) per il Violoncello obligato Performers: PaveI Servin (cello); Pratum lntegrum Painting: Peter Jacob Horemans (1700-1776) - A musical gathering at the Court of the Elector Karl Albrecht of Bavaria (1730) Image in high resolution: Further info: Listen free: No available --- Giovanni Benedetto Platti (Padua, 9 July 1692 - Würzburg, 11 January 1763) Italian composer. His death certificate gives his age as 64, which would indicate that he was born in about 1698, but information in a letter of 7 October 1764 from Domenico Palafuti to G.B. Martini suggests that the real date of birth could be 9 July 1697; however, Michael Talbot’s discovery in Venice of a document mentioning Platti as belonging to the arte dei sonadori at the beginning of 1711 means that he cannot have been born later tha