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Francesco Barsanti
Francesco Barsanti (1690–1775) was an Italian flautist, oboist and composer. He was born in 1690 in the Tuscan city of Lucca, but spent most of his life in London and Edinburgh.
==Biography==
Very little is known about Barsanti's background. His father may or may not have been the opera librettist Giovanni Nicolao Barsanti (''Il Temistocle''〔Sharman, Ian G. : “Francesco Barsanti: A fuller biography and a discussion of his Concerti Grossi (Op 3),” Journal ''Brio'', Vol. 26, No. 1, International Association of Music Librarians (UK/IR), 1989. Sharman refers to an opera entitled "Il Temistocle" which was produced in Lucca in 1678, but states the composer is unknown. He cites the U.S. Library of Congress list of opera librettos printed before 1800. This is obviously not the same work as Johann Christian Bach's Temistocle, composed in London in 1767.〕) but this has never been proved. He studied law in Padua as a young man, but abandoned it to pursue a career in music. In 1714 Barsanti emigrated to London with Francesco Geminiani, another musician from Lucca who was several years his senior. He played oboe and recorder, and soon obtained a post in the opera orchestra at the Haymarket where Handel's operas were being produced.〔Hawkins, Sir John: ''A General History of the Science and Practice of Music'', Vol. 5, T. Payne & Son, London, 1776〕 Nerici reports that he returned briefly to Lucca in 1717 and again in 1718 to play in the Festival of the Holy Cross, 'for a very high salary.'〔Nerici, Luigi: ''Storia della musica in Lucca'', Vol. 12, Tipografia Giusti, Lucca, 1880〕
According to Hawkins and other authorities, in 1735 Barsanti left London for Edinburgh in Scotland where he obtained a post as a 'Master' with the Edinburgh Musical Society. He stayed in Scotland 8 years, during which time he benefitted from the support (moral if not financial) of the young (Lady Erskine (Charlotte Hope) ) (1720-1788), and married a commoner named 'Jean', about whom nothing else is known. The fortunes of the EMS were less than stellar at that time; in 1740 the Society was obliged to cut Barsanti's salary from £50 per year to £25, and over the next three years, it refused two of Barsanti's requests for a raise.〔Sharman, ''Op. cit.'', citing the minutes of the Edinburgh Musical Society.〕 Barsanti finally returned to London some time after 1743, with his wife and daughter Jane (known as 'Jenny'), but found that he has lost his place in musical society in London and was obliged to take a post as a violist in Handel's opera orchestra. He drew little income from his earlier compositions, and the two works he composed after his return to London brought him almost nothing.
He suffered a stroke in 1772 on the eve of his daughter Jenny's début at Covent Garden, and died three years later, sometime between May 1 and 4, 1775 (see Burney, F.〔Troide, Lars E. & Cooke, Stuart J., eds.: ''Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney'', Volumes III & IV, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994〕). He was cared for to the end of his life by his daughter Jenny, a well-known actress upon the London and Dublin stages.
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