Giovanni Battista Pescetti (c. 1704 – 20 March 1766) was an organist and composerPescetti was born in Venice and studied there under the organist and opera composer Antonio Lotti. From 1725 to 1732 he wrote operas for various theatres in Venice, he left for London in 1736, replacing Nicola Porpora as director of the Opera of the Nobility in 1737 (Hill 2001).
He probably left London around 1745 when hostility against Catholic Italians arose because of the Jacobite rebellion of Prince Charles and the Highland clans. He returned to Venice in 1747 and in 1762 was appointed second organist at St Mark's Basilica (Hill 2001). He died in Venice.

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