Albinoni: Sonata a Cinque in G minor, Op. 2 No. 6

tomaso albinoni was venetian, and wrote fifty some operas, most of which have been largely forgotten. today most of what gets air is his instrumental music.

there are books that are written on stylistic differences between nationalities of baroque composers, but it is still hard for me to tell, not having really given most of it a really good hard listen.
anyway, having perused this debate on a couple forums, stylistic generalizations (beyond the direction of ornamentations and such) tend to agree that the germans were, in terms of complexity and cerebral-ness, in a league of their own (mostly owing to bach, but handel does some of this as well). handel also brought a sort of height to english music, an elegance all his own.
the rest of this realm was largely just a big competition between the italians and the french, and sometimes it's generalized that italians do more songful writing, and the french emphasize their courtly dances instead.

there are also generalizations based on the instrumentations that the various composers liked. it's hard to draw nationalistic lines here, though; usually whatever instruments a composer enjoyed writing for were either the ones that were readily available, or the ones for which an individual composer had an affinity for - albinoni wrote a lot of oboe music. the organ is pretty decidedly bach and handel-ian. that sort of thing.

ok, here is your albinoni.

written for strings and basso continuo. the first two movements are french overture style, but a bit simpler in form and rhythm than the handel:
adagio, stately, melodious introduction in 4/4
allegro in 4/4. incidentally this is a fugue as well, like the handel i just posted.
grave, 3/4. this might be hindsight vision but for me this is quite a great example of writing which is characteristically more songful than it is dancelike. the melodies are quite prominent and surprisingly longwinded.
allegro, a brisk 12/8. here we have another fugue. this movement's lightness may make me have to sort of eat my words about the dance thing, but it's obviously not supposed to be an across the board generalization.

albinoni is most well known today for his oboe concerti (the first italian to write any oboe concerti at all) and for an adagio that apparently he didn't even write. he was a great inspiration to bach!