name of Lonati is still in the list of musicians employed at the court of Mantua. At that time, Lonati is increasingly present in the musical life in Milan. Despite the lack of proof, the violinist Francesco Geminiani continues to be regarded as a student of Lonati. It is not known if Lonati visited the court of Emperor Leopold I, to whom he dedicated his last work, a set of twelve sonatas for violin and basso continuo. The 12 sonatas are considered his best composition due to their technical difficulties and expressive range. Works Lonati's few extant violin works reveal a bold, fluent style with (in his 1701 12 Sonate per violino e basso continuo) prominent double stopping and use of scordatura, as well as the idiosyncratic melodic writing that runs through all his music. His cantatas – long, varied and of unusual expressive force – rank with those of Stradella and Alessandro Scarlatti, while his surviving operas, in Venetian style, are characterized by mature da capo arias and a penchant for the stile concitato with brilliant writing for obbligato instruments. Lonati had his work seldom printed, so it could not be copied by people that could "hardly read a watch". Amor stravagante (Libretto by Giovanni Filippo Apolloni Amor per vendetta o vero L'Alcasta), 1677 Genua, Teatro Falcone Amor per destino (Libretto by Nicolò Minatos Antioco), 1678 Genua Ariberto e Flavio, regi de Longobardi (Libretto by Rinaldo Cialli), 9. Dez. 1684 Venice, Teatro S. Salvatore. Enea in Italia (Giacomo Francesco Bussani), 1686 Milano, Regio Teatro Nuovo I due germani rivali, 1686 Modena, Teatro Fontanelli Scipione africano (Libretto by Nicolò Minato), 1692 Milano, Regio Teatro; together with Paolo Magni L'Aiace (Libretto by Pietro d'Averara), 1694 Milano, Regio Teatro; together with Paolo Magni and Francesco Ballarotti References External links http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/carlo-ambrogio-lonati_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ Italian Baroque composers Italian male classical composers Italian violinists Male violinists Musicians from Milan 1640s births 1710s deaths 18th-century Italian composers 18th-century Italian male musicians