Pietro Gnocchi [SEP] place of death
Pietro Gnocchi
Pietro Gnocchi (February 27, 1689 – December 9, 1775) 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 in manuscript, he wrote a 25-volume history of ancient Greek colonies.
Life.
The principal source for information on Gnocchi's life is an unpublished manuscript written by his associate C.
Gnocchi (surname)
Gnocchi is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Carlo Gnocchi (1902–1956), Italian priest, educator and writer
- Gene Gnocchi (born 1955), Italian television presenter, comedian and footballer
- Giovanni Pietro Gnocchi, Italian painter, active during the late 16th-century in Lombardy in a late-Renaissance or Mannerist styles
- Luigi Gnocchi (1933–2014), Italian sprinter
- Osvaldo Gnocchi-Viani (1837–1917), Italian journalist
- Pietro Gnocchi