Domenico Zipoli (1688–1726) was an Italian composer from the Baroque period who worked and died in Córdoba, in the Viceroyalty of Peru, Spanish Empire, (presently in Argentina).
At the very beginning of the following year, he finished his best-known work, a collection of keyboard pieces titled Sonate d'intavolatura per organo e cimbalo.
[1] For reasons that are not clear, Zipoli travelled to Sevilla, Spain, in 1716, where, on 1 July, he joined the Society of Jesus with the desire to be sent to the Reductions of Paraguay in Spanish Colonial America.
A previous theory placing his death in the ancient Jesuit church of Santa Catalina, in the hills of the Province of Córdoba, has now been discredited.
His Italian compositions have always been known but in 1972 some of his South American church music was discovered in Chiquitos, Bolivia: two Masses, two psalm settings, three Office hymns, a Te Deum laudamus and other pieces.