Giovanni Benedetto Platti was an Italian composer and instrumentalist born in Padua around 1697 who spent much of his career working in northern Italy and the German-speaking regions in court musical establishments from the 1720s. His output comprises concertos and sonatas for instruments such as cello, oboe and keyboard, and his music shows a transition from late Baroque contrapuntal textures towards the clearer melodic lines and forms associated with the early Classical style.
