Giovanni Ambrogio Bissone, (Vercelli 1655? – Vercelli 1726) - Received his early musical education at the Collegio degli Innocenti. He became a beneficed minor canon in 1672 at the early age of 17-18, replacing Francesco Bernardo Cappa who had just died. There is no trace of him after this until late 1685; it seems he may have been living in Novara. In November 1687, the members of the Vercelli cathedral chapter appointed him Maestro di Cappella to Bissone and he held this role until his death in 1726.
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Giovanni Maria Brusasco, (Casale Monferrato 1685 – Vercelli 1772) - Originally from Casale, not much is known about his life. He became a beneficed canon of the cathedral of Vercelli in 1712 and was elected master of the musical chapel of that cathedral in 1739, on the death of Carlo Ignazio Monza, to remain there until 1772. Author as important as underestimated for Savoyard music, he was a prolific composer of sacred and profane music, and many of his masses have come down to us.
Giovanni Battista Fenoglio, (Fossano - Torino 1772) - was a priest with a soprano voice, counted among the "wise" composers of his century, a native of Fossano and documented active in Bra in 1751. In Turin he reaped some professional satisfactions, befriending Lorenzo Somis and the tenor Gaetano Ottani and not it appears that he had students. In 1753 he was entrusted with the composition of the music for a day of the octave with which the City of Turin would have celebrated, in the homonymous Turin church, the tricentenary of the Miracle of Corpus Domini (Giacinto Calderara also participated in this octave with some of his works sacred). After the death of the religious, which took place in 1772, Fenoglio's musical collection arrived - following paths mostly unknown to us - at the musical manuscripts collection of the British Library in London.