Luigi Bottazzo

Luigi Bottazzo (9 July 1845 – 29 December 1924) was an Italian organist and composer.

[1] [2] Bottazzo was born in Presina di Piazzola, Padua, Italy.

He received a musical education in counterpoint, organ and piano at Padua's Institute for the Blind, where at the age of nineteen he joined the staff.

Throughout his life Bottazzo was a keen supporter of liturgical reform and a proponent of the Cecilian Movement in church music.

[2] In 1895, he joined the staff of Conservatorio di Musica di Padova as organ teacher and as a result published several pedagogical works,[2] and a history of sacred music in Italy.