Antonio Pio

Antonio Pio (1753-1795) was an Italian composer of operas. As Renzo Calamosca relates in his book Musicisti ravennati nei secoli scorsi (Ravenna, Arti Grafiche, 1935), in the 18th century “there were very few musicians from Ravenna. One of them, however, was really outstanding: Antonio Pio, opera composer and music teacher at the court of Catherine of Russia, in the post that had been previously held by the celebrated Paisiello and Cimarosa”.