Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/B/Bandini, Angelo Maria

by John Weeks Moore

Bandini, Angelo Maria. Among the musical manuscripts purchased by Dr. Burney at Rome, in 1770, was the music book of Salvator Rosa, the celebrated painter, poet, and musician. Number eleven, in the above-mentioned curious manuscript, contains a grumbling, gloomy history of Salvator Rosa, in which the comic exaggeration is not unpleasing ; but it is rather a satire on the times in which he lived than a lyric composition. However, it is set by Bandini; but being chiefly narrative, the music is almost wholly recitative. Dr. Burney has published a translation of this cantata. Bandini was a native of Florence.