These five sonatas are typically sonorous pieces with the parts quite close together by Cesario Gussago, a fine church musician from Brescia.
The present sonatas are taken from Cesario Gussago’s Sonate à 4. 6. 8 con alcuni Concerti à Otto, con le sue Sinfonie da suonare avanti, & doppo secondo il placito, & commodo de Sonatori (Venice, 1608), a copy of which is preserved in the Staats-und Stadtbibliothek in Augsburg.
