Alberto Mazzucato (28 July 1813 – 31 December 1877) was an Italian composer, music teacher, and writer.

[2] Along with Luigi Felice Rossi and Guglielmo Quarenghi, he formed the Società di S Cecilia in 1860.

After his last opera, Hernani, premiered at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa on 26 December 1843,[1] Mazzucato retired from his work as a composer in order to focus on his career as an educator.

Among his notable pupils were music journalist Amintore Galli,[3][4] composers Arrigo Boito,[3] Benedetto Junck, Isidore de Lara, Antônio Carlos Gomes, and Ivan Zajc, sopranos Marcella Lotti della Santa and Marietta Gazzaniga, and tenor Sims Reeves.

[5][6] Their daughter Eliza Mazzucato Young (1846-1937) was a composer, pianist, and music educator in the United States.