Italian composer. He was a monk of the Benedictine order based at the monastery of Monte Cassino, near Naples. His career as organist took him to Cesena, where he was at the Madonna del Monte in 1606, to Reggio nell'Emilia, where he is known to have served at SS Pietro e Prospero between 1609 and 1611, and to Pavia, where he was at S Salvatore in 1613 and 1614. By 1619 he had returned to his former post at Cesena.
Patta's output, which is all of sacred music, includes settings of masses and vesper psalms in a conventional five- or six-part texture and also early examples of concertato motets for a small number of voices.
Source: Jerome Roche Serafino Patta quoted from Grove Music Online accessed 07 February 2010
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