Azzolino Bernardino della Ciaia

Chiesa di Santo Stefano dei Cavalieri in Pisa. On the left the organ built by Azzolino della Ciaja in 1733, on the right the organ built by Onofrio Zeffirini in 1571.

Azzolino Bernardino della Ciaia (also Ciaja ; born May 21, 1671 in Siena , † January 15, 1755 in Pisa ) was an Italian composer .

biography

The offspring of a noble family was a member of the Tuscan Order of St. Stephen , he received his musical training in the order's school. However, he did not serve the order as a musician.

He created works of various kinds; His harpsichord sonatas op. 4 (1727) deserve special mention , which through their sequence of movements ( Toccata - Kanzone - two dance movements) already indicate the basic form of the later piano sonata .

Della Ciaia was also active in organ building, for example in Pisa he was involved in building an organ with four manuals and more than 60 registers.

Works

Secular vocal works

• Cantate da camera , op.2 (Lucca, 1701)
• Cantate da camera , op.3 (Bologna, 1702), lost
• De suoi tormenti in seno (Pisa, 1704)
• Chi non sa morire ( cantata )
• Bella imago (cantata)
• Lungi dal caro bene (cantata), Pisa, 1709

Sacred vocal works

• Salmi concertati , op.1 (Bologna, 1700)
• Mass (Ky, Gl, Cr), four-part, 1696
• Mass, four to five parts, 1739
• Mass (Ky, Gl, Cr), four-part, not dated
• I trionfi di Giosuè ( Pasticcio ), Florence 1703, lost

Instrumental works

• Sonata per harpsichord con alcuni saggi ed altri contrapunti di largo e grave stile ecclesiastico per grandi organi , op.4 (Rome, 1727?)

Web links

• Sheet music and audio files by Azzolino Bernardino della Ciaia in the International Music Score Library Project