Giovanni martini biography

          Giovanni Battista or Giambattista Martini, O.F.M..

          Giovanni Martino

          American soldier (1852-1922)

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          Giovanni Battista Martini was an Italian composer, music theorist, and music historian who was internationally renowned as a teacher.

        1. Giovanni Battista Martini was an Italian composer, music theorist, and music historian who was internationally renowned as a teacher.
        2. Giovanni Martino or Giovanni Martini, also known as John Martin ( – 24 December ) was an Italian-American soldier and trumpeter.
        3. Giovanni Battista or Giambattista Martini, O.F.M.
        4. Giovanni Battista or Giambattista Martini, O.F.M.
        5. Franciscan monk, composer, teacher, maestro di cappella at S. Francesco, Bologna, from –, author of the three-volume Storia della musica.

          6. For the classical musician and composer, see Giovanni Battista Martini.

          Giovanni Martino or Giovanni Martini, also known as John Martin (1852 – 24 December 1922) was an Italian-American soldier and trumpeter.

          He served both in Italy with Giuseppe Garibaldi and in the United States Army, famously in the 7th Cavalry Regiment under George Armstrong Custer, where he became known as the only survivor from Custer's company at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

          Biography

          Although details of Martino's origin and birth were ambiguous in the years following the Little Bighorn, more recent research conducted by Italian researchers has provided more definitive proof of his origins, as evidenced by the comune (or town) of Sala Consilina's municipal records.

          Martino was born in the period between late November 1851 and early January 1852 in or around Sala Consilina, Province of Salerno, Campania, K