Artist Info: Clemente Monari

Clemente Monari (Bologna, about 1660 - Forlì, after 1728) was an Italian composer and violinist.

The Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani rejects the long-circulating claim that he was the brother of the organist and composer Bartolomeo Monari. He began his musical career as a violone musician in the service of the Marquis Guido Rangoni of Modena and wrote his first works in 1686, a collection of ballets and chamber currents, for 2 violins and basso continuo, op. [read more...]