Giovanni Pietro Biandrà was an Italian composer. Although styled ‘romano’ in his publications, he may have been born at Biandrate, near Novara, his surname and its variants thus deriving from that place. He appears to have been maestro di cappella of the Seminario Romano, Rome, possibly from 1618 to 1619, and from 1619 to 1633 he was maestro di cappella of Faenza Cathedral. By 1626–7 at least he was