Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634), Italian composer, organist, theorist and writer, born in Bologna, was one of the most versatile Italian musicians of his day and is of particular interest as a theorist.
He was organist at Bologna, Imola, Lucca, Siena, Venice, Verona, and Milano.



In 1615 he helped to found the "Accademia dei Floridi", the first such society in Bologna: the academy, which Monteverdi visited in 1620, met at S. Michele in Bosco, and was the immediate forerunner of the "Accademia dei Filomusi".



He moved to the monastery of San Bernardino, Bologna, in 1634, and in the same year he died there of apoplexy.