Giovanni Agostino Perotti
Compositions for: Voice
VespersWikipediaGiovanni Agostino Perotti ( Vercelli 12 April 1769 – Venice 6 June 1855) was an Italian composer, conductor, teacher and writer.
Perotti studied music with his brother Giovanni Domenico and later in Bologna with
Stanislao Mattei. In 1795 he was in Wien as a keyboard player and in 1798 he moved to London.
He returned in Italy in 1801 and settled in Venice where in 1811 he was appointed maestro in the Cappella Marciana, position that he held till the death in 1855.
Perotti was essentially a composer of sacred music.