Alessandro Marcello , born the August 24th 1669 with Venice and dead the June 19th 1747 with Padoue is Italian, resulting from a family of the Venetian nobility, which was at the same time a writer, a philosopher and a mathematician of reputation. Today, however, one especially knows it as type-setter of music, just as his young brother Benedetto Marcello.

It composed several collections of concertos of soloist - among which 6 were gathered under the title of Cetra - like some cantatas. It published its works under the pseudonym of Eterio Stinfalico . under which it was known with the Accademia dell' Arcadia. Its most known work is a concerto for oboe in minor D which has transcribed by Jean-Sebastien Bach in a concerto for harpsichord (BWV 974), sometimes taken again with the organ.