Giovanni Antonio Giay
Giovanni Antonio Giay (also Giai or Giaì ; born June 11, 1690 in Turin ; † September 10, 1764 ibid) was an Italian pre-classical composer .
Live and act
Giovanni Giay was a son of the pharmacist Stefano Giuseppe Giaj, who died when the son was five years old. In 1700 Giay entered the "Collegio degli Innocenti" at the Turin Cathedral , where he received music training from Francesco Fasoli . Presumably he supplemented his training with a stay in Rome. He then had a job in Malta from 1727 to 1729 . His first opera , Il trionfo d'Amore ossia La Fillide , was performed at the 1715 Carnival at the Teatro Carignano in Turin . In 1732 Giay followed Andrea Stefano Fiorè to the post of Kapellmeister at the royal chapel under Charles Emanuel III. He held this position until his death in 1764. His son Francesco Saverio Giay (1729-1801) succeeded his father after his death in this position, which he held until 1798.
Under the direction of Fioré and the two generations of Giay, a fruitful musical period developed at the Turin court, not least during this time the Piedmontese violin school was created by protagonists such as Giovanni Battista Somis and his pupil Jean-Marie Leclair , and a little later by the same ones School of Gaetano Pugnani and Giovanni Battista Viotti , who spread the Italian style in France.
Giay's traditional works include, in addition to the stage works only preserved as fragments, church music, some large-scale double-choir works and some instrumental works.
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Giovanni Antonio Giay in the International Music Score Library Project
- Giovanni Antonio Giaj on haendel.it
- List of stage works by Giovanni Antonio Giai based on the MGG at Operone
- Search for operas by Giovanni Antonio Giay (search term in the Autore field : "Giaì Giovanni Antonio") in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
Individual evidence
- ↑ Raoul Meloncelli: entry in the Dictionnaire Biografico degli Italiani . - Vol 54 (2000)
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| SURNAME | Giay, Giovanni Antonio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Giaii, Giovanni Antonio; Giaij, Giovanni Antonio; Giaj, Giovanni Antonio; Giai, Giovanni Antonio; Giaì, Giovanni Antonio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian Baroque composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1690 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 10, 1764 |
| Place of death | Turin |