(violin)
Tommaso Antonio Vitali was the son of Giovanni Battista Vitali , and both were famous in their day as composers and violinists. Tommaso was born in Bologna about the middle of the seventeenth century. When Giovanni went to the Duke of Modena in 1674 as his assistant director of music, Tommaso became a member of the court orchestra, and eventually its director. Later he was appointed to the Bologna Academy. The main compositions of both the Vitalis were violin sonatas. In addition to editing many of his father's sonatas, Tommaso has three published volumes of his own sonatas to his credit, but he is now best known for his Chaconne for violin, edited by Ferdinand David.