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GIANETTINI, Antonio (1648-1721) - Salmi a quattro voci (1717)

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Antonio Gianettini (1648-1721) - Salmi a quattro voci (1717)
Performers: Cantar Lοntano; Marco Mеncοbοni (conductor)
Further info: Notti Di Modena

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Italian composer, organist and singer. He went to Venice and sang bass in the choir of San Marco from 1674. He served as organist at SS. Giovanni e Paolo (1676-79), where he was described as a pupil of Carlo Grossi, as well as at San Marco during periods between 1677 and 1686. He left San Marco on 1 May 1686 to take the post of maestro di cappella to the Duke of Modena, which he retained, with interruptions, almost until the end of his life. The duke had to order a large boat to transport Giannettini and his family’s personal effects from Venice. At Modena he was responsible for the selection and payment of musicians, as his correspondence shows, and for organizing the performance of his own and others’ works. He maintained his connections with Venice and during his visits, often at Carnival, he recruited musicians for the duke. In Modena he was called on to produce oratorios and small occasional works more often than operas and he may have composed new music for the 1690 performance in Modena of Giovanni Legrenzi's 'Eteocle e Polinice'. When, during the War of the Spanish Succession, the French occupied Modena in 1702, Duke Rinaldo fled to Bologna, and Giannettini accompanied him. He soon moved on to Venice with his family. During this period he is supposed to have returned to Modena twice as opera director. After the war, in February 1707, he resumed his earlier activities at Modena. From June 1721 was employed as a singer at the Bavarian court at Munich. As a composer, he wrote about 10 operas, of which 'Medea in Atene' (1675) became the best known. His other works included 9 oratorios, many cantatas, 12 motets, a Kyrie a 5, and Psalmi a 4 (1717). He was among the most talented Italian composers of his generation; his works were fairly popular, and two of his operas circulated in Germany.

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