Aurelio Roccia

Aurelio Roccia was an Italian composer and instrumentalist of uncertain origin, possibly born in Venafro around 1540-1550, although his place of birth is not known with certainty, nor is the date of his death, which is placed in Naples after 1571. His name is linked to Neapolitan musical life in the second half of the sixteenth century.

Together with his brother Plinio, he was one of the founding members of a musicians' corporation established in Naples in 1569. Both worked at the Neapolitan court, where Aurelio served as a cornettist.

As a composer, he published his Primo libro de' madrigali a quattro voci in Naples in 1571, with texts by Alamanni, Ariosto, Molza and Parabosco. One of his sons, Vespasiano, is represented by four laude included in Giovenale Ancina's Tempio Armonico, published in 1599.