Pietro Terziani
Pietro Terziani (* 1765 in Rome ; † October 5, 1831 ibid) was an Italian composer .
Life
Pietro Terziani had his first lessons with Giovanni Battista Casali in Rome. From the age of 15 he attended the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio in Naples , where Carlo Cotumacci (1709–1785) and Giacomo Insanguine (1728–1795) were among his teachers. After his return from Naples he was tutored again by Casali. In 1784 he was accepted into the Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna after presenting a four-part antiphon , and in the same year he was accepted by the Congragazione di S. Cecilia in Rome. His earliest operas were Il geloso imprudente (Rome, 1785) and Creso (Venice, 1788). After the French occupation of Italy, Terziani settled in Vienna for several years , where his opera I campi d'Ivri was performed in 1805 . He married in Vienna, and there his first son, Gustavo Terziano (1813–1837), was born, who also composed several works.
In 1816 Pietro Terziani was maestro di capella at various churches in Rome, such as San Giovanni in Laterano , Il Gesù , Sant'Ignazio di Loyola in Campo Marzio and San Silvestro in Capite . From this time on he wrote exclusively sacred music, including numerous masses, offertories, psalm settings, motets and other works.
His son Eugenio Terziani (1824–1889) made it known, who worked with Giuseppe Verdi on his opera La forza del destino (The Power of Fate) and himself created three operas, a requiem and other church music.
Individual evidence
- ^ François-Joseph Fétis : Entry in the Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie génèrale de la musique (1865)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Terziani, Pietro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1765 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 5, 1831 |
| Place of death | Rome |