Giovanni Agostino Perotti

Giovanni Agostino Perotti ( Vercelli April 12, 1769 – Venice June 6, 1855) was an Italian composer, conductor, teacher and writer.

Life

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.

Compositions

Sacred music

Piano

External links

Preceded by
Bonaventura Furlanetto
List of Maestri of Cappella Marciana
1811 – 1855
Succeeded by
Antonio Buzzolla


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