Fortunato Chelleri (ca. 1690–1757) began his career as an opera composer in Venice, but for most of his professional life he found employment as kapellmeister at various Northern European courts. He travelled to Venice, Barcelona, Würzburg, Kassel, London, Düsseldorf, Florence, and Stockholm, and his associates included Vivaldi, Agrell, Sandoni, Platti, Ariosti, Cuzzoni, and Pilotti. Chelleri's considerable corpus of instrumental music shows evident signs of cosmopolitanism, and the harpsichord...