Charles-Antoine Campion, italianized as Carlo Antonio Campioni was a French-Italian composer who was born in Lorraine, France. He was a prolific composer and represented a link between Baroque compositional methods and those of the Classical style.
Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi was an Italian opera composer of the classical period.
Giacomo Antonio Perti was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. He was mainly active at Bologna, where he was Maestro di Cappella for sixty years. He was the teacher of Giuseppe Torelli and Giovanni Battista Martini.
Pēteris Vasks is a Latvian composer.
Tarquinio Merula was an Italian composer, organist, and violinist of the early Baroque era. Although mainly active in Cremona, stylistically he was a member of the Venetian school. He was one of the most progressive Italian composers of the early 17th century, especially in applying newly developed techniques to sacred music.
Giuseppe Sarti was an Italian opera composer.
Marco Uccellini was an Italian Baroque violinist and composer. His output of mainly secular music for solo violin is considered to have been important in the rise of independent instrumental classical music, and in development of violin technique.
Vincenzo Manfredini was an Italian composer, harpsichordist and a music theorist.
Teodulo Mabellini was an Italian composer.
Marco Enrico Bossi was an Italian organist, composer, improviser and teacher.
Giovanni Morandi was an Italian organist and composer of the Romantic era.
Ignazio Cirri or Giacomo Matteo Ignazio Cirri was an Italian organist and composer in the 18th century. He was the brother of composer Giovanni Battista Cirri and the father of composer and violoncellist Giovanni Battista Cirri. He was born and died in Forlì. He was a friend of Giovanni Battista Martini, who had a portrait of Ignazio Cirri among his valuable men's portraits. In 1759, he became Maestro di cappella in the Cathedral of Forlì and he was admitted in the Philharmonic Academy of Bologna.
Azzolino Bernardino della Ciaja was an Italian organist, harpsichordist, composer and organ builder.
Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, was an Italian organist, harpsichordist, musicologist and composer.
Raffaele Caravaglios was an Italian bandmaster.
The Venturi Music Collection is a collection of musical documents housed at the Public Library in Montecatini Terme, Italy. It conserves many handwritten copies by composers who were active in the second half of the 1700s; for example, there are autographs, which are one of a kind, of composers from the Pistoia and Florence area.
Alessandro Felici was an Italian composer and violinist, not to be confused with his contemporary, Roman composer Felice Alessandri.
The Rospigliosi Music Collection is a collection of musical documents preserved in two institutions in Pistoia, Italy: the Archive of the Chapter and the Forteguerriana Library.
Ottaviano Tenerani is an Italian keyboard player, conductor, musicologist. He is the leader of Il Rossignolo, an ensemble on period instruments that he founded in 1998 together with the flautist Marica Testi and the recorder and oboe player Martino Noferi.
Elia Vannini era un frate carmelitano, compositore di musica barocca. Fu maestro di cappella nella cattedrale di Ravenna dal 1677 al 1701. Pubblicò 5 opere. Nel XVIII secolo la sua musica continua a essere suonata per alcuni decenni dopo la sua morte. A partire dagli anni ‘70 del XX secolo un rinnovato interesse verso la sua musica portò a nuovi studi delle sue opere e a concerti pubblici. Una scuola primaria di Medicina è stata dedicata proprio ad Elia Vannini.
