Francesco Maria Bazzani or Bassani (c. 1650 – c. 1700) was an Italian baroque composer.

Francesco was a member of the musical Bassani family, of whom Giovanni Battista Bassani is the best remembered today. He is to be distinguished from another Francesco Maria Bassani two generations earlier ( fl. 1621), nephew of the viola da gamba composer Oratio Bassani, who kept a pedagogic notebook Regole di contrapunto, which contains eight pieces, seven of which are probably by his uncle Oratio.

He was maestro di cappella of the Duomo di Piacenza from 1673 ^[1]

Upon the death of his sister and her husband, a musician named Keller from Germany, Francesco adopted his nephew Fortunato Chelleri and trained him as a musician. ^[2]

Works

Operas

• Ottone il Grande (Parma 1670) is cited as an early example of an opera seria where a minor comic character, in this case the servant Lenno, returns at the end of Acts 1 and 2 of the opera to enable a comic ballet to be performed. ^{[3] [4]}
• L'inganno trionfato overo La disperata speranza ravvivata ne' successi di Giacopo Quinto di Scozia e Maddalena di Francia, Parma (1673) libretto: Oratio Francesco Roberti

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