Giovanni Marco Rutini

At the conservatorio, he studied composition under the guidance of Leonardo Leo, harpsichord with Nicola Fago and violin with Vito Antonio Pagliarulo.

The manuscripts of his operas are stored in the Landesbibliothek in Dresden, in the library of the Florence conservatory, and also in Civico Museo Bibliographico in Bologna.

His sonatas, belonging to the transitional age from the harpsichord to the fortepiano, present a variable number of movements and often end with a minuet.

His non-incisive and expressive themes contributed greatly to the development of the classical style, so much so that Mozart showed a certain interest in the sonatas of the Italian composer.

In addition to his compositional activity, Rutini was also a teacher and founder of the Leopoldian School of Florentine Composers, to which his son Ferdinando belonged, among others.