Pietro Maria Crispi (1737-1797) was a Roman church maestro and keyboard player. Although almost completely forgotten nowadays, he had a modest international career during his lifetime; one of his symphonies was published in London in 1763 by Robert Bremmer, and Charles Burney referred to him as a “famous church maestro here” while visiting Rome in 1770. Friedrich Lippmann introduced Crispi to musicologists in a 1968 article investigating a symphony collection at Doria-Pamphilj archive in Rome. Among over 120 symphonies, this collection contains eighteen by Crispi, the largest among the eighteenth-century Italian composers represented. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Pietro+Maria+Crispi">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.