Angelo Berardi (SantAgata Feltria, Urbino, 1636 Rome, 1694) was a pupil of Giovan Vincenzo Sarti and Marco Scacchi, of the Roman school. Committed supporter of the Seconda Prattica, Berardi maintained that modern music had reached greater perfection compared to the past and that the practice of music was more important than theory. Berardi was a prolific writer and a very able contrapuntist whose value was, already at that time, extensively recognized, perhaps also because of the careful balance that allowed him to praise the genius of Arcangelo Corelli while maintaining an excellent relationship with the Bolognese Giovanni Paolo Colonna during the years of the famous diatribe between those two. In terms of his stylistic profile, Berardi shows fantasy and richness of inspiration, so much so that his only work assigned to the violin, and dedicated to Sister Anna Maria Francesca Rossi, Augustinian nun from Viterbo (the Sinfonie a Violino Solo, Book I, Op. 7, Bologna, Giacomo Monti 1670), seems to cover the entirety of the instruments abilities and expressive variety.
