La vera idea delle musicali numeriche segnature - Sabbatini, Luigi Antonio 1732-1809 (Venice Valle, 1799)
Luigi Antonio Sabbatini (1732-1809) was an Italian composer and music theorist. He studied music at Bologna in the Franciscan Monastery, under Father Giovanni Battista Martini. He published a textbook on the theoretical elements of music, in 1789, in three volumes, a treatise on fugues, in 1802. He also contributed to the use of numerical signatures of musical harmony. In May 1807, he was elected to the Accademia Italiana.
Keywords: 18th Century (1701-1800); Music theory; Harmony; Figured bass; Italy; basso fundamentale; bc; Vallotti; Sabbattini, L.A.