David Sacerdote

Daivid Sacerdote was Jewish composer and banker active in Italy. He was born in Rovere, today Roure in the province of Turin, and is known as the author of a single work written in his youth, “Il primo libro di madrigali a sei voci” (First book of madrigals for six voices), published in Venice in 1575. Only one copy, and that of the part-book quinto (fifth voice), has been preserved.

Sacerdote was also a banker. From 1576 to 1580 he worked at Casale with his brother Leone, then from 1580 to 1585 at Acqui, and finally at Cortemilia in Piedmont, from 1585 onward, together with his relative Ventura Bacchi. He also held a moneylender’s concession at Bologna (from 1587 onward), at the Marchese Del Carreto fiefs in Calizzano and Carcare (1591–1611), and finally, from 1618 onward, at Cengio.