Pietro Gnocchi, Italian composer, director, historian, and geographer (died 1775)

Pietro Gnocchi

Italian composer (1689–1775)

Pietro Gnocchi was an Italian composer, choir director, historian, and geographer of the late Baroque era, active mainly in Brescia, where he was choir director of Brescia Cathedral. In addition to composing an abundance of eccentrically titled sacred music, all of which remains…