Girolamo Besozzi (1745 or 1750 in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

– 1788 in

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) was an Italian composer and

oboist An oboist (formerly hautboist) is a musician who plays the oboe or any oboe family instrument, including the oboe d'amore, cor anglais or English horn, bass oboe and piccolo oboe or oboe musette. The following is a list of notable past and pres ...

and member of a renowned family of wind players. Son of composer Gaetano Besozzi and nephew of

Antonio Besozzi Antonio Besozzi (1714–1781) was an Italian oboist and composer and also member of an extensive family of musicians from the eighteenth-century Naples. He composed several concertos for oboe and a few quintets, which he called "sonatas", for ...

, he became oboist in the court orchestra in Naples from 1765. By 1770 he moved to Paris, where he played in the

Concert Spirituel The Concert Spirituel ( en, Spiritual Concert) was one of the first public concert series in existence. The concerts began in Paris in 1725 and ended in 1790. Later, concerts or series of concerts of the same name occurred in Paris, Vienna, Londo ...

before the King of France. He was known as a composer of chamber music. His Sonata for ''Bassoon and Piano in B-flat major'' is an integral part of the literature for the instrument. His son

Henri Besozzi Henri Besozzi (born 1775 in Paris – d. ?) was an Italian flutist The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. How ...

was a flautist at the

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, and his grandson the composer Louis Désiré Besozzi.

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''section.'' 18th-century births 1788 deaths Italian oboists Male oboists Musicians from Naples 18th-century composers 18th-century Italian musicians 18th-century Italian male musicians 18th-century Italian composers Italian male composers People from the Kingdom of Naples {{Italy-composer-stub