Cristoforo Fiorani

Cristoforo Fiorani was an Italian composer of the first half of the seventeenth century, born in Ancona. His documented activity spans roughly the years 1620 to 1635, a period during which he served as maestro di cappella in towns of the Marche region.

In 1620 he held the post of maestro di cappella at the church of San Venanzo in Fabriano. Fifteen years later, in 1635, he held an equivalent position in the city of Ascoli Piceno.

Only three of his publications survive, and in two of them the work has come down to us incomplete. Among them are a set of compline with litanies to the Virgin, published in Venice in 1620, a collection of psalms for four voices in concertato style issued in the same city in 1626, and a second book of masses for eight voices, also printed in Venice in 1635.