Giuseppe Antonio Vincenzo Aldrovandini

Giuseppe [Gioseffo] Antonio Vincenzo [Giuseppe Maria]
Aldrovandini [Aldovrandini, Aldrovandin, Aldrovandon, Altrobrandino]
(b Bologna, 8 June 1671; d Bologna, 9 Feb 1707).

Italian composer. He studied composition and counterpoint with Perti, probably while the latter was maestro di cappella of S Pietro, Bologna. In 1695, after at least two of his oratorios had been performed in the city's churches, he became a member of the Accademia Filarmonica, and in 1701 was elected its principe. His name appears in librettos from 1702 as honorary composer to the Duke of Mantua and maestro di cappella of the Accademia dello Spirito Santo, Ferrara. Contemporary accounts indicate that he was a man of intemperate habits, which perhaps accounted for his lack of professional preferment and for his habitual poverty despite the recognition of his talent. He drowned in the canal port in Bologna as he was preparing to leave for Venice.