Soriano, Francesco (c. 1549–1621)

Italian composer. After a first appointment he went to the court of Mantua 1583–86, and then became maestro di cappella in Rome, by turns at Santa Maria Maggiore, St John Lateran, St Peter's in 1603, and the Cappella Giulia 1603–20.

He was a choirboy at the Church of St John Lateran in Rome and studied with various masters including Giovanni Bernardino Nanino and Palestrina.

Works Church and secular music Masses, an arrangement of Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli for eight voices, motets, psalms, Magnificat, a Passion, and other church music; madrigals.