• Name: Girolamo Fantini
• Birthday: 02/11/1600
• Birth Place: Spoleto, Italy
• Died: 05/06/1675
• Place of Death: Florence, Italy
• Period: Baroque
• Genre: Classical

Title	Release
Balletto detto del Velzer
(2) Balletto detto il Luanti, for trumpet & organ	1989
(2) Balletto Detto la Squilletti	1987
Brando detto il Ruccellai
(2) Brando Detto L'albizi	1987
Corrente dello Staccioli, for trumpet & organ	1989
Entrata e Imperiale per sonare in Concerto, for 2 brass choirs & percussion	2001
Mass of Thanksgiving	1988
Missa Veni sponsa Christi	1989
Modo per Imparare a Sonare di Tromba	1998
(2) Prima Imperiale for 8 trumpets, timpani, organ & orchestra	1986
(3) Saltarello Detto Del Naldi	1987
Seconda Imperiale, for 2 brass choirs & percussion	2001
(2) Sonata a due Trombe detta del Gucciardini (from Modo per Imparare a sonare di Tromba)	1987
Sonata detta del Monte, for trumpet & continuo
Sonata detta la Renuccini	1986
(5) Sonata for trumpet & organ No 8 in C "detta Del Nero"	1989
Sonata for trumpet & organ No. 2 "detta del Gonzaga"	1989
Sonata for trumpet & organ No. 4 "detta del Saracinelli"	1989
Sonata for trumpet & organ No. 6, "detta del Morone"	1989
Sonata for trumpet & organ No. 7 "detta del Vitelli"	1989
(6) Sonata Imperiale No 1 "Del Colloreto"
(2) Sonata Imperiale No 2	1989
(5) Sonata Imperiale No 3 "Del Niccolini"	1985
(2) Sonata Imperiale No 5 "Del Adimari"	1989
(2) Sonatas (8) for trumpet and organ
Work(s)	2005
Work(s) for trumpet & organ

Girolamo Fantini was a giant among trumpet players in the seventeenth century. His baptism was recorded in Spoleto on February 11, 1600, but he is not heard from again until 1626, when he entered the service of Cardinal Scipio Borghese in Rome. In April 1631, Fantini accepted the post of chief court trumpeter with Ferdinando II, Grand Duke of Tuscany. However, it was on a visit to Rome with Borghese in the summer of 1634 that Fantini made history, performing in the first known recital of trumpet and organ, with Girolamo Frescobaldi as organist. In 1638, Fantini was licensed to publish his treatise on trumpet playing, -Modo per imparare a suonare di Tromba, which appeared in Florence. This work contains eight sonatas for trumpet or organ, several pieces for trumpet and continuo, and a few ensemble works. Fantini is credited for extending the range of the natural trumpet from the A known to Monteverdi to the C so beloved of Louis Armstrong. Little is known of Fantini's whereabouts after 1638, but his presence is last noted in Florence on May 6, 1675, and he probably died not long after that. ~ Uncle Dave Lewis, All Music Guide