Giovanni Benedetto Platti (born possibly 9 July 1697 (according to other sources 1690, 1692, 1700) in Padua, belonging to Venice at the time; died 11 January 1763 in Würzburg) was an Italian Baroque composer and oboist. Platti studied music in Italy (mostly singing, the oboe and the violin). While he was still in Italy (until 1722), he probably saw the recently invented fortepiano and a few of h..