Pietro Andrea Ziani

Pietro Andrea Ziani ( born December 21, 1616 Venice, † February 12, 1684 in Naples) was an Italian organist, composer, he was regarded in the 1660s and 1670s as one of the main representatives of the Venetian opera.

Life

Pietro Andrea Ziani was the uncle of the composer Marc'Antonio Ziani. He received his comprehensive musical education at the "Order of the Canons of San Salvadore " in Candia, which he joined in June 1632. His first jobs as an organist, he received, in 1636 in Treviso, 1637 in Candia, 1638 in Brescia, then from 1639 to 1654 at the Church of San Salvatore in Venice, where he was ordained a deacon in 1639. Already in 1637 and 1639 gave him his order the permit, which prints the " Canone regulario, organ Paulista " ( Op.2, 1640) and his Il primo libro de Canzonette ... ( Op.3, 1641) to be published. His title of " Don " or " Padre " can still be found on the early the Librettis. In 1668 he was released for health reasons, of all ecclesiastical commitments.

For Carnival 1654 his first opera La guerriera spartana was premiered at the Teatro Apollinare, from this time began a long collaboration with the librettist Giovanni Faustini and Opernimpressario that lasted for many years.

From May 1657 to June 1659 Ziani was associated with a disease-related interruption, successor by Maurizio Cazzati bandmaster of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo. From 1660, he established contacts to the house of Habsburg. The Archduke Ferdinand Karl ( Austria - Tyrol ), he devoted his Fiori musicali Opus 6 Ziani lived from 1661 about two years in Innsbruck, the end of 1663 he traveled to Vienna, where he was until 1667 Kapellmeister of the court orchestra of the Dowager Empress Eleonore. In his time in Vienna created numerous oratorios and operas, which were both Vienna and Venice, determined.

Between December 1666 and January 1667, he held on the occasion of the wedding of Johann Georg III. On (Saxony) and Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark and Norway in Dresden to conduct a performance of the opera Theseo that did not come from his pen. During the year 1668, he left with a letter of the Empress Dowager Vienna.

From 1669 to 1677 was Ziani, as the successor of Francesco Cavalli first organist at St. Mark's Basilica in Venice. Also in this period, several operas and opera file created for pastiche, which came alongside Venice in many Italian cities to the performance. After Natale Monferrato had received targeted by Ziani site of the first Kapellmeister at St. Mark's, he traveled to Naples, where he got a job at the "Conservatorio di Sant 'Onofrio " in Porta Capuana district and was remunerated as honorary organist of the Hofkasse. In 1680 he became Vice-Kapellmeister of the court orchestra. Also in this period that further operas, which were intended for Venice, Naples and Palermo. After the death Zianis, Alessandro Scarlatti took over his office.

With its particularly imaginative opera productions Ziani was extremely successful and was considered the most important composer of operas by Francesco Cavalli. Numerous musical experiments, avoid repetition. His instrumental music was known, led Johann Philipp Krieger chamber works Zianis on the Saxon Weissenfels.

Work

Operas

• La guerriera spartana ( dramma per musica libretto by Bartolomeo Castoreo, 1654, Venice)
• Eupatria ( dramma per musica libretto by Giovanni Faustini, 1655, Venice)
• Le fortune di Rodope e Damira ( dramma per musica libretto by Aurelio Aureli, 1657, Venice)
• L' incostanza trionfante, ovvero il Theseo ( dramma per musica libretto by Francesco Maria Piccioli, according to Plutarch, 1658, Venice)
• Antigona delusa as Alceste ( dramma per musica libretto by Aurelio Aureli, 1660, Venice)
• Annibale in Capua ( dramma per musica libretto by Nicolò Beregan, 1661, Venice), sa Antonio Salieri
• Gli scherzi di Fortuna subordinato al Pirro ( dramma per musica libretto by Aurelio Aureli, 1662, Venice)
• Labors d' Ercole per Deianira ( dramma per musica libretto by Aurelio Aureli, 1662, Venice, 1680, Amsterdam)
• L' amor guerriero ( dramma per musica libretto by Cristoforo Ivanovich, 1663, Venice)
• Oronisbe ( componimento drammatico per musica libretto by Antonio Draghi, 1663, Vienna)
• La congiura del vizio contro la virtu ( scherzo musicale, libretto by Donato Cupeda, 1663, Vienna)
• La Ricreazione burlesca ( dramma per musica, 1663, Vienna)
• L' invidia conculcata dalla Virtù, Merito, Valore della SC Mta di Leopoldo imperatore ( componimento drammatico, libretto by Antonio Draghi, 1664, Vienna)
• Circe ( dramma per musica libretto by Cristoforo Ivanovich, 1664, Vienna)
• Cloridea ( dramma per musica libretto by Antonio Draghi, 1665, Vienna)
• Doriclea ( dramma per musica libretto by Giovanni Faustini, 1666, Vienna)
• L' onore trionfante ( dramma per musica libretto by Domenico Federici, 1666, Vienna)
• Elice ( introduzione ad un regio balletto, libretto by Domenico Federici, 1666, Vienna)
• Galatea ( favola pastoral per musica libretto by Antonio Draghi, 1667, Vienna)
• Alcide ( dramma per musica libretto by Giovanni Faustini, 1667, Venice)
• Semiramide ( dramma per musica libretto by Marcello Noris by Giovanni Andrea Moniglia, 1670, Venice)
• Ippolita reina delle amazzoni (only Act 3 ) ( dramma per musica libretto by Carlo Maria Maggi, 1670, Milan, composed in collaboration with Lodovico Busca and Pietro Simone Agostini )
• Heraclio ( dramma per musica libretto by Nicolò Beregan, 1671, Venice)
• Attila ( dramma per musica libretto by Marcello Noris, 1672, Venice)
• Chi nasce tal tal vive l' ovvero Alessandro Bala ( dramma per musica libretto by Andrea Perruccio, 1678, Naples)
• Candaule ( dramma per musica libretto by Adriano Morselli, 1679, Venice)
• Enea in Cartagine ( dramma per musica libretto by Marc'Antonio Catani, 1680, Palermo)
• L' innocenza Risorta, ovvero etio ( dramma per musica libretto by Adriano Morselli, 1683, Venice)

Other

• Madrigals (2-4 voices Venice, 1640)
• Solo Motets, Op 2 (Venice, 1640)
• Solocanzonetten op 3 and op.8 (Venice, 1641 and 1670 )
• Sacrae laudes complectens tertiam, Missam psalmosque a 5 op 6 (Venice, 1660)
• (20 ) 3-6 voices Sonatas Op 7 (Freiberg and Venice, 1667)
• Sonatae duae of 6, 2 violini, 4 viole con basso per l' organo (1670 )
• 6 Sonatas à due violini col basso per l' organo (Amsterdam, 1710 )
• Assalonne punito ( The Punishment of Absalom ) Oratorio ( 1667)