Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni

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Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni

Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (born March 18, 1657 in Rieti , † February 1, 1743 in Rome ) was an Italian baroque composer .

Life

At the age of five, Pitoni began his first musical studies in Rome; at the age of eight he was a chorister at the Church of S. Giovanni de Fiorentini, later at SS. Apostoli. Francesco Foggia was one of his teachers . In 1673 he became Kapellmeister in Monterotondo and from 1674 in Assisi . There he began to study the works of Palestrina and a year later he was at the collegiate church of S. Marco in Rome, where he worked until his death. At the same time he was also active in several other churches in Rome, such as from 1686 at S. Apollinare, the church of the Collegium Germanicum , from 1692 as organist and from 1696 as Kapellmeister in S. Lorenzo in Damaso, from 1708 to 1719 in S. Giovanni in Laterano, then at the Cappella Giulia in 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 to S. Maria Maggiore. His most famous students include Leonardo Leo , Francesco Feo , Francesco Antonio Bonporti , Girolamo Chiti , António Teixeira and Francesco Durante .

Pitoni emerged as the author of numerous works on music theory. In the last years of his life he maintained a lively correspondence with Padre Martini, who worked in Bologna .

Works

Pitoni was an extremely productive composer, he left behind more than 3,500 sacred compositions, many in the style of Palestrina. Numerous Pitoni's manuscripts are to be found in the “Santini Collection” of the Münster diocesan library . Only a few of his instrumental works have survived.

music

Music theory writings

  • Guida armonica ” (Rome, around 1690 has largely survived as a manuscript, only volume I was printed). A facsimile edition, based on a copy in the possession of Padre Martini, was published in 1990 ISBN 88-7096-008-0
  • " Regole di contrappunto "
  • " Notes de 'Contrappuntisti e Compositori di musica dagli anni dell'era cristiana 1000 fino al 1700 " (1725)
  • " Aggiunte alle Regole di contrapunto di Giulio Belli "

literature

  • Siegfried Gmeinwieser: Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni: Thematic catalog raisonné. Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 1976, ISBN 3-7959-0212-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Here of a Sunday Morning: Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni