Subissati Aldebrando, *30 April 1606 Fossombrone, †20 August 1677 Fossombrone, Italian violinist called signor Aldobrando del violin. In 1640, he gave concerts in Rome at the Pietro Della Valle palace; he was accepted to the royal band of John II Casimir Vasa in Warsaw ca. 1645 as a virtuoso violinist and teacher. Sent with two students on a mission to Rome in September 1654, he never came back to Warsaw due to Polish-Swedish war. He settled in Fossombrone; in May 1665, he conducted the group of musicians from his family city at the Basilica in Loreto. Inscription on his gravestone says that he was a court musician of the Emperor Leopold I, John II Casimir Vasa and Christina, Queen of Sweden. His Il primo libro delle sonate di violino from 1675 (manuscript at the Biblioteca Passionei in Fossombrone) contains 19 sonatas (2 incomplete) for violin solo with basso continuo; 10 of them are equivalents of antiphons by G.F. Anerio from Antiphonae (…) binis, ternis 8 quaternis vocibus, Rome 1613. Sonata for violin solo and 2 arias for 2 violins and basso continuo, listed in the inventory of the band of the Carmelite Monastery “Na Piasku” in Krakow, were lost.
