Oratio Colombani

Oratio Colombani (c.1550-c.1595), also appearing as Oratio Colombano or Orazio Colombani, was a Veronese Conventual Franciscan composer and chapel master active across northern Italy in the late sixteenth century. Trained by Costanzo Porta, he moved through a series of important ecclesiastical posts, including Vercelli Cathedral, San Francesco Grande in Milan, San Francesco in Brescia, Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice, Urbino Cathedral, and finally the Basilica del Santo in Padua.