Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi (musician)

[Domenico] Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi [Mealli] (1624 – c. 1687) was an Italian composer and violinist.

Another stepbrother, Giovan Battista Mealli, became a singer in Venice, where Domenico and the rest of the family joined him around 1630 following the death of old Pandolfi.

[4] The violinist Andrew Manze believes the 1669 sonatas may be the work of another composer of a similar name,[3] although the music historian David McCormick argues for their common authorship.

He points out that Pandolfi is named on the title page of the 1669 sonatas (although without the additional surname Mealli) as a musician of Messina, and that the 1669 sonatas are named after court musicians of that city; one of them to the castrato Giovanni Marquett, whom Pandolfi was to murder a few years later.

Pandolfi is described in a contemporary chronicle as a "priest of Montepulciano", and Marquett as "an impertinent layman and eunuch".

[1] Manze expresses the opinion that the influence of Pandolfi's works can be detected in the sonatas of Arcangelo Corelli and others.