Vallotti, Francesco Antonio
(1697–1780)
FRANCESCO ANTONIO VALLOTTIVALLOTTI, FRANCESCO ANTONIOFRANCESCO ANTONIO VALLOTTI [* 1697-† 1780] Like his colleague and fellow Paduan TARTINI—and with greater accuracy and clarity—Francesco Antonio Vallotti used mathematics as a tool in unlocking music's mysteries. Though Vallotti claimed to have developed his theoretical system as early as the 1720s, he saw only a single volume of his comprehensive Della scienza teorica e pratica della moderna musica reach its intended audience—in 1779, shortly…