an Italian composer and religious cleric. Fra Ferdinando Lazzari came in 1693 in a Minoritenkloster in Bologna, where he one year later, the profession took off. From 1702 he was choirmaster of the monastery. According to Padre Martini , he learned to play the organ at Padre Vastamigli, play the violin at Domenico Gabrielli and in theory of composition he was by Giovanni Paolo Colonna and Pietro Degli Antoni taught (1639-1720). After various appointments in Bolognese churches Lazzari was in 1705 to the Basilica Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice called, where he worked until his blindness.
