Natale Monferrato was an Italian baroque composer. He was a pupil of Giovanni Rovetta

Giovanni Rovetta

Giovanni Rovetta was an Italian baroque composer and maestro di capella of the Capella Marciana at St Mark's Basilica, Venice between Monteverdi and Cavalli.-References:...

, then was a singer at St Mark's Basilica

St Mark's Basilica

The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice, northern Italy. It is the most famous of the city's churches and one of the best known examples of Byzantine architecture...

 in Venice, and then with the aid of Francesco Cavalli

Francesco Cavalli

Francesco Cavalli was an Italian composer of the early Baroque period. His real name was Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni, but he is better known by that of Cavalli, the name of his patron Federico Cavalli, a Venetian nobleman.-Life:Cavalli was born at Crema, Lombardy...

 vicemaestro, or maestro di coro (1647–76). On 30 April 1676 he became director, after a competition with Giovanni Legrenzi

Giovanni Legrenzi

Giovanni Legrenzi was an Italian composer of opera, vocal and instrumental music, and organist, of the Baroque era...

, another of Rovetta's pupils, and Pietro Andrea Ziani

Pietro Andrea Ziani

Pietro Andrea Ziani was an Italian organist and composer. He was uncle of Marc'Antonio Ziani. His works included „L'Assalone punito" and the operas „La ricreazione burlesca" , „L'invidia conculcata della virtù, merito, virtù, merito, valore di Leopoldo imperatore" , „Cloridea " , „Circe" ,...

. He was earlier maestro at the Mendicanti.

Following his death the junior post of maestro di coro fell to Giandomenico Partenio (1685–89), then Antonino Biffi (1699–1730).

Works, editions and recordings

• Edition: Alma redemptoris mater 1962 - 10 pages
• Recording: Alma redemptoris mater; Psalm. Carolyn Watkinson
  Carolyn Watkinson
  The English mezzo-soprano Carolyn Watkinson is a well-known singer of baroque music.Watkinson was born in Preston and studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music and in The Hague. In 1978 she sang Rameau's Phèdre at the English Bach Festival at London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden...
  
  , Gonzaga Band, Chandos Classics, 2011.