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Death Anniversary: Giovanni Battista Sammartini — January 15, 1775

15 January 2027

He died in Milan on 15 January 1775. As maestro di cappella at Sant’Ambrogio and cathedral organist, he taught Christoph Willibald Gluck and influenced the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. With nearly seventy symphonies, his pioneering development of the orchestral sinfonia made him a key architect of the classical symphonic form.

A note on this date. The exact day of birth is unrecorded in Milanese parish registers (c. 1700); we celebrate his verified death anniversary on 15 January. We publish it with the warning rather than leave the page out, and if you can point us to a register or an archive that carries it we will confirm or correct it.

Dates verified on Newell Jenkins & Bathia Churgin, Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Harvard University Press, 1976, ISBN 978-0674877351; Treccani, DBI, vol. 90 (2017), voce "SAMMARTINI, Giovanni Battista" (https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-battista-sammartini_(Dizionario-Biografico)/).

Travel tips from CHO

Go on the first Sunday of the month

State museums, archaeological parks and monuments across Italy open free of charge on the first Sunday of every month. It covers state-run sites only — civic and private museums set their own prices — and there is nothing to claim: you simply walk in.

The ministry’s free days →

In September, the doors that are usually shut open

For one long weekend every September, some fifty European countries run the European Heritage Days together: palaces, workshops, archives and private houses that are closed the rest of the year let visitors in, almost always for nothing. Italy sets its own dates, and they are published a few weeks ahead.

Dates, country by country →

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Maps, opening hours and tickets all need data, and roaming outside your own network still costs more than the ticket. A travel eSIM for Italy installs on your phone before you leave home and works the moment you land — no queue at the airport, no physical card to swap.

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