Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni

Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (* March 18, 1657 in Rieti, † February 1, 1743 in Rome) was an Italian composer of the Baroque.

Life

The age of five Pitoni began with the first musical studies in Rome, with 8 years as a chorister at the church of S. Giovanni de Fiorentini and later at SS Apostoli. Among his teachers was Francesco Foggia. In 1673 he was Kapellmeister in Monterotondo and after 1674 in Assisi. There he started in studying the works of Palestrina, deepen and was at the Collegiate of S. Marco in Rome, where he worked until his death a year later. At the same time he was also in several other churches in Rome, so from 1686 to S. Apollinare, Church of the Collegium Germanicum, 1692 as organist and from 1696 as Kapellmeister in S. Lorenzo in Damaso, from 1708 to 1719 in S. Giovanni Lateran, then at the Cappella Giulia at St. Peter.

From 1696 to 1731 he was also in the service of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni. In 1709 he turned down an offer to succeed Alessandro Scarlatti as Kapellmeister at S. Maria Maggiore. Among his most prominent pupils include Leonardo Leo, Francesco Feo Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Girolamo Chiti, António Teixeira and Francesco Durante.

Pitoni emerged as the author of numerous music theory writings. He talked in his last years a lively correspondence with the acting in Bologna Padre Martini.

Works

Pitoni was an extremely prolific composer, he left behind more than 3500 sacred compositions, often in the style of Palestrina. Numerous manuscripts Pitonis are in the " Santini Collection" of the Diocesan Library Münster. Of his instrumental works, only a few have survived.

  • 278 Measure
  • 221 Introit ( introductions to Measure )
  • 231 Graduale ( Between songs )
  • 211 offertories
  • 637 Antifone
  • 255 hymns
  • 789 psalms
  • 236 motets
  • 24 Lamentos
  • 24 Responsorien
  • 37 litanies

Music Theoretical writings

  • " Guida armonica " (Rome, 1690 has been partly preserved in manuscript, was printed only band I). A Facsimileausgabe for a copy in the possession of Padre Martini in 1990 ISBN 88-7096-008-0 appeared
  • " Regole di Contrappunto "
  • " Notizia de ' Contrappuntisti e Compositori di musica cristiana dagli anni dell'Era 1000 fino al 1700 " ( 1725)
  • " Aggiunte all Regole di contrapunto Guiio di Belli "
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