Giovanni Battista Bassani (ca. 1657 – 1 October 1716) was an Italian composer, violinist, and organist.Battista was born in Padua. He was an organist at the Accademia della Morte in Ferrara from 1667, but had probably left by 1675. He published his first music in 1677. He became maestro di cappella at the Accademia della Morte in Ferrara in 1683, and then maestro di cappella at Ferrara Cathedral in 1686. He became director of music at S Maria Maggiore in Bergamo in 1712.