Torelli ’s interest in the trumpet was strange for a strings player. He most likely developed his liking for trumpet from Giovanni Pellegrino Brandi, who was a very famous trumpeter in the San Petrono orchestra that Torelli played in. Torelli then moved from Bologna to Ansbach, Germany where he worked with Pistocchi, a good friend and a famous composer of the time, as the two toured
Germany together. Around 1697 Torelli was appointed Maestro di concerto (or concert master) in Ansbach. He did not write much music at this time and he was known to suffer from hypochondria in his later years in Ansbach. Torelli ended up going back to Bologna in around 1701; he found a position quickly with the San Petronio capella musicale. Both Torelli and Pistocchi seem to have been in quite a few concerts together in the early 1700’s. mush like his early years little is know about Giuseppe Torelli
’s later years, except that he wrote little music. His only