Italian composer and teacher. Poglietti was probably born in Tuscany and probably spent some time studying with Girolamo Frescobaldi in Rome, later being active in Vienna, where he was organist and Kapellmeister to the Jesuits at the Kirche zu den neun Chören der Engel in 1661. He was appointed court organist and chamber organist in the Kapelle of Emperor Leopold I on July 1, 1661. Poglietti was evidently highly esteemed, for in 1665 he advanced to the post of first chamber and court organist. His surviving portrait shows him as a Count of the Imperial court and Knight of the papal Order of the Golden Spur. He also enjoyed the friendship of Johann Kaspar Kerll and formed close ties with a Benedectine abbey in Lower Austria, where his only surviving opera was performed in 1671. In 1672 he inherited estates near the residences of Count Anton Franz von Collalto and the Prince-bishop of Olomouc, two other close friend. His end was dramatic: in 1683, during the siege of Vienna by the Turks, he was murdered by the Tartars, and his many children were carried off to Turkey.
Poglietti was highly regarded as a teacher, and his Compendium oder kurtzer Begriff, und Einführung zur Musica (1676) offers instruction in keyboard playing and composition. His keyboard works, particularly his twelve ricercars, are an important link between the generation of Frescobaldi, and that of Bach.; he also experimented with imitation of natural sounds such as birdcalls.