Italian composer. A pupil of
Macque
in Naples, and worked at SS. Annunziata there as organist from
1593 and
maestro di cappella
from 1621; he was also organist at the royal chapel from 1602.
He published madrigals, but his main work is his two volumes of
keyboard music,
Capricci per sonar
(1603, 1609). These contain
canzonas,
toccatas, variations and arrangements of vocal pieces, many of
which are distinctively Baroque rather than sixteenth century
in style.