Luigi Bottazzo (09/07/1845 - 29/12/1924), an Italian composer. He was born at Presina near to Piazzola on the right side of Brenta river (Padua Province); he died in Padua. Blinded at the age of nine, in 1856 he entered the Blind Institute in Padua, where he studied the organ with G. Carlutti and the composition with M. Balbi. In 1864 he was appointed professor of harmony, counterpoint and organ at the same Institute. In 1872 he became organist at Saint Anthony Basilica in Padua and in 1895 he was an organ teacher at Padua Music Institute.
He was an honorary Academician at the Music Institute in Florence, a Member of the Sciences and Arts Academy in Padua, Knight of Saint Gregory (Magnus). He was an ardent propagator of the sacred music and as an organist and a composer he greatly honoured the Italian musical art.
He wrote about fourty Masses, antiphones, cantatas, responsories, psalms, other sacred music and also teaching works, for example: L'Harmonium, a method to learn how to play the harmonium in collaboration with O. Ravanello.
Among his works: 25 Organ Trios, op. 101; 24 Easy Preludes, op. 104; 100 Versetten (2 bks), op. 105; Sonata in Re minor. op. 210; Sonata (in Fa minor); Six Organ Pieces, op. 120; the Holy Mass, op. 126; Seven Religious Marches, op. 204; ,Short Suite for harmonium, op. 207; Laudate Eum in Chordis et Organo, op. 269; Four Pastorales, op. 279; Chorale and Offertory, op. 194; Prelude for G.O., op. 113; ; Laus Tibi Christe, op. 339; Wedding March, op. 368; 60 Pieces for Organ or Harmonium, op. 186; Missa pro Defunctis, op. 281; and so on.