Bonifazio Asioli

Bonifazio Asioli (30 April 1769 – 26 May 1832) was an Italian composer of classical and church music.

By the time he was eighteen, he had composed five masses, twenty-four other works for church and theatre, and many instrumental pieces.

This latter work contained a diagram of the instrument and airs arranged for guitar solo.

[1] His treatise on contrabass playing, Elementi per il Contrabasso con una Nuova Maniera di Digitare (1823), developed a three-finger system which flourished in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century after it was promoted by Giuseppe Andreoli and others.

He lived in Paris in 1810 in the service of the Empress Marie Louise, and remained there until the fall of the empire, when he returned to his native town.