Giovanni Masutto (30 July 1830 – 30 January 1894) was an Italian musicologist, flautist, conductor and music professor. Born in

Treviso Treviso ( ; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 87.322 inhabitants (as of December 2024). Some 3,000 live within the Venetian wall ...

, he was the founder of the Istituto Musicale Trevigiano in Treviso and the director of the Scuola Popolare di Musica in Venice. His books include ''La Musica, della sua origine e della sua storia'' (1877), ''I maestri di musica italiani del secolo XIX'' (1882) and ''Della musica sacra in Italia'' (1889). He died in Venice survived by his son Renzo Masutto (1858–1926), who became a composer and concert pianist.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Masutto, Giovanni 1830 births 1894 deaths Italian classical flautists People from Treviso 19th-century classical musicians 19th-century Italian musicologists