Angelo Berardi

Who was Angelo Berardi?

Angelo Berardi was an Italian music theorist and composer.

Born in Sant'Agata Feltria, "Sant'Agata, Tuscany", or some other Sant'Agata yet to be identified, he received early education at Forlì under Giovanni Vincenzo Sarti. From 1662 he was maestro di cappella in Montefiascone. He studied under Marco Scacchi at Gallese at some time between 1650 and Scacchi's death in 1662; he included two motets by Scacchi in Book 1 of his Documenti armonici of 1687, and also cites him frequently. By 1667, when his Salmi vespertini concertati, Op. 4, were published, Berardi was maestro di cappella at the cathedral in Viterbo. He was probably made a priest in Rome in 1672 or 1673. He was organist and maestro di cappella at Tivoli from 21 September 1673 to 1679, and maestro di cappella and "professor of music" at the cathedral in Spoleto in 1681 or from 1679–1683. He was a canon at the collegiata of S. Angelo, Viterbo, when the Documenti armonici and Miscellanea musicale were published. By 1693 he was maestro di cappella at Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome.

He died in Rome in 1694.