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Andrea Basili (Città della Pieve, 16 December 1705 – Loreto, 28 August 1777) was an Italian composer and music theorist. He was the father of Francesco Basili.

His teacher was Tommaso Gaffi. He was maestro di capella at Cathedral of San Lorenzo Martire, Tivoli, then Basilica della Santa Casa.

Works

• Il martirio di Santa Sinforosa e dei sette santi suoi figliuoli nobili Tiburtini (oratorio, libretto di F. A. Lolli, 1737, Tivoli)
• La Passione di Gesù Cristo (oratorio, 1743, Recanati)
• Salmi con testo parafrasato in italiano
• Christus factus est a 4 voci
• Christus factus est a 5 voci
• 3 Miserere a 8 voci
• Miserere a 10 voci
• Missa breve a 4 voci
• Beatus vir a 4 voci
• Confitebor a 4 voci
• Laetatus a 4 voci
• Nisi dominus a 4 voci
• Ave Maria a 4 voci
• Iustorum animae a 5 voci
• Kyrie e Gloria a 4 voci
• Salve regina a 4 voci
• Fuga in ottava tono plagale sopra l'antifono Veni Sponsa Christi (1740)
• Litanie a 3 voci
• Miserere double choir a 8 voci
• Another 150 sacred works

References

1. The Art of Partimento: History, Theory, and Practice - Page 23 Giorgio Sanguinetti - 2012 "One student of Pasquini was Tommaso Bernardo Gaffi, who has left us a manuscript treatise on accompaniment, Regole per sonare su la parte.9 Gaffi taught Andrea Basili, author of an Italian counterpart of the Well Tempered Clavier, the Musica universale armonico-pratica...1736"

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