Bonaventura Somma ( Chianciano Terme 30 July 1893 – Rome 23 October 1960) was an Italian Romantic composer, conductor and organist.
As a young man he attended the conservatory in Rome, where he was trained in music, having been a student of various modern composers including Ottorino Respighi.
Somma carried out an intense activity of transcription and revision of XVI to XVII century scores for choir, including several Palestrina's Masses and Madrigal works by Banchieri stand out.
Somma studied at Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome con R. Renzi, C. Dobici, S. Falchi e Ottorino Respighi.
He was Mestro at Shrine of the Virgin of the Rosary of Pompei (1911), organist at the Waldensian Evangelical Church of Rome and for many years Maestro of San Luigi dei Francesi.