Pietro Antonio Fiocco

Pietro Antonio Fiocco (also Pierre -Antoine ) ( born February 3, 1654 Venice, † September 3, 1714 in Brussels) was an Italian composer and conductor, who was in the Habsburg Netherlands.

Life

Fiocco received his musical training in his native Italy. He started well before his tenure in Brussels in Amsterdam. 1681 appeared the libretto " Helena rapita because Paride " for which Fiocco composed the music. In the same year he composed a prologue for Pietro Andrea Zianis opera " Alceste " for a performance at the court of Hanover. In the summer of 1682 he came to Brussels and entered the service of the previously appointed in the Spanish princes Generalerbpostmeisters Eugen Alexander von Thurn und Taxis.

In 1694 he took over together with the financier for the governor advanced musician Gio Paolo Bombarda in the financial troubled, first public opera and theater house in Brussels. The performances of the opera " Amadis ," " Acis et Galathée " ( 1695), " Phaéton " and " Bellérophon (1697 ) " " Armide " and " Thésée " (1697 ) by Lully at this theater, Fiocco composed new prologues. This was necessary since Lully in his prologues paid homage to the French king, but the performance was the same at the time of the performances in Brussels not appropriate, as it was with France in the War of Spanish Succession.

In 1700 he took over again with Bombarda the musical director of the newly founded Monnaie theater, the Brussels opera. It was in 1703 " maître de musique " the church of Notre Dame du Sablon, in this capacity, he composed primarily sacred music.

His sons Joseph -Hector Fiocco and Jean- Joseph Fiocco were also famous composers and musicians in Brussels in the early 18th century.

Works (selection)

  • The above mentioned operas prologues to
  • " Le retour du printemps " ( Pastoral Cantata ) 1699
  • " Tutto acceso d'amore e d' affetto "
  • " Sacri concerti a una et pu voci, con instrumenti e senza " (Antwerp, 1691)
  • " Missa pro defunctis "
  • " Missa Sancti Jesephi "
  • Many motets, such as " Amor patris ", " Averegina ceolorum ", " Sanctorum meritis ", " Festinemuso mortales ", " Fugue demon fuge leprosy " and other
  • Sonatas for recorder or violin and B.C. ( in the style of Corelli's decorated with rich Preludes )
  • Trio Sonatas for Two Flutes or Violins and Continuo ( Roger, Amsterdam, 1706)
  • Various arias
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