Andrea Antico

Table of contents page from the first sacred music printed in Rome: Andrea Antico's 1516 Liber quindecim missarum

Andrea Antico (also Andrea Antico da Montona, Anticho, Antiquo) (c. 1480 – after 1538) was a music printer, editor, publisher and composer of the Renaissance born in the Republic of Venice, of Istrian[1] birth, active in Rome and in Venice.[2] He was the first printer of sacred music in Rome, and the earliest competitor of Venetian Ottaviano Petrucci, who is regarded as the first significant music printer.

  1. ^ Martin Picker, Grove online. Picker writes: "Italian woodblock cutter, editor, publisher and composer of Croatian birth. His birthplace [Montona] is frequently appended to his name..."
  2. ^ Stanislav Tuksar, Grove online