Marcello

Marcello, BENEDETTO, musical composer, born in Venice on 1st August 1686, was a judge of the republic, and a member of the Council of Forty, and afterwards held important administrative offices at Pola and Brescia, where he died on 24th July 1739. He had a passion for music, and is remembered as the composer of music for Giustiniani's version of the Psalms (8 vols. 1724-27), of numerous concertos, canzoni, cantatas, a pastoral, an oratorio, and other pieces, distinguished for their simple yet elevated style, and as the author of a satirical work, Il Teatro alla Moda (1720).