Giulio San Pietro del Negro

Giulio Santo Pietro de’ [Del Negro, Giulio Santo Pietro]　Negri [Negro]
(b Milan; fl 1607–20). Italian composer.

He seems to have spent most of his life in Milan, though he may briefly have lived at Lecce, at the opposite end of Italy, since his op.5 includes an occasional piece celebrating an event there. He was probably of independent means and, as a composer, an amateur. However, he may have had advice from Ghizzolo, who worked in Milan from 1610 to 1613: certainly the two men seem to have moved in similar circles, for they dedicated individual songs to the same men, for one of whom, a bass, Negri wrote two florid songs headed ‘basso alla bastarda’ (they are in op.5). His op.11 suggests that he belonged to an academy.