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Bernardino Bertolotti (March 26, 1547–after 1609) was an Italian composer and instrumentalist. He came from a family of instrumentalists and instrument makers, and was the son of Agostino Bertolotti, who was the maestro di cappella at Salò cathedral. Bernardino joint the Este court at Ferrara in 1578, and left when the court dissolved in 1598, at which point he went to the court of Vincenzo Gonzaga at Mantua, a closely related court, and in 1609 was instrumentalist to the pope at the Castel Sant'Angelo. It seems that he played the violin and trombone as part of his duties.^[1]

Bertolotti was a minor composer, and despite the revolutionary musical changes which were occurring in Ferrara during his tenure there, most notably in the work of Luzzasco Luzzaschi, his works remained pedestrian, and were not published even by the court music publisher Vittorio Baldini. He was the uncle of Gasparo da Salò.^[1]

[edit] References

• Anthony Newcomb. "Bernardino Bertolotti", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy, grovemusic.com (subscription access).

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Persondata
NAME	Bertolotti, Bernardino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Italian instrumentalist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 26, 1547
PLACE OF BIRTH	Salò Italy
DATE OF DEATH	after 1609
PLACE OF DEATH	Rome Italy

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