Death Anniversary: Giuseppe Matteo Alberti — February 18, 1751

He died in Bologna on 18 February 1751, having held the post of maestro di cappella at San Giovanni in Monte for nearly thirty years. His published Concerti per chiesa e per camera, op. 1, issued in Bologna in 1713 and widely reprinted by Walsh in London, was among the first Italian collections to adopt the Vivaldian solo concerto model outside Venice.

Dates verified on Treccani, DBI, vol. 1 (1960), voce "ALBERTI, Giuseppe Matteo" (https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giuseppe-matteo-alberti_(Dizionario-Biografico)/); Michael Talbot, The Italian Concerto in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries, Ashgate, 2002, ISBN 978-0754605928, pp. 88-102.