Pietro Platania

Pietro Platania ( born April 5, 1828 in Catania, † April 26, 1907 in Naples) was an Italian composer and music educator.

He studied music at the conservatory in Catania and Palermo, where he became the favorite pupil of Pietro Raimondi contrapuntist. Platanias opera Matilde Bentivoglio in 1852 in Palermo a great success. In the same year Raimondi resigned as director and teacher of counterpoint at the conservatory and proposed Platania as his successor. Due to bureaucratic rivalries Platania but could not take up the position at the time. It was not until 1863, under the new government, he received it through a competition. In 1882 he was maestro di cappella at the Cathedral of Milan, and was from 1885 to 1902 director of the Conservatory of Naples. He was regarded as the largest Italian contrapuntist his time and admired by Rossini and Verdi. The latter asked him for a contribution for the planned funeral of Rossini.

In his sacred works Platania sometimes pursues a tendency to colossal, as in his setting of Psalm 67 Deus Exurgat for six four -part choirs and orchestra. He also continued to write operas, including Spartaco (1891 ) as well as instrumental works, for example, in 1878 a choral symphony for the coronation ceremony of King Umberto I.

• Italian composer
• Sicilian
• Music ( Sicily)
• Born in 1828
• Died in 1907
• Man