ARIOSTI, ATTILIO (c. 166o), operatic composer, was born at Bologna and brought out his first opera Dafne at Venice in 1686. Later he went to Germany and was Hofkapellmeister at Berlin in 1698. Subsequently he passed many years in London, producing there a number of operas, and becoming in 1720, with Handel and Bononcini, one of the first three joint directors of the London Academy of Music. He died in obscurity abroad, neither the date nor the place of his death being known.
See Alfred Ebert, Attilio Ariosti in Berlin (Leipzig, 1go5).