Pietro Alessandro Pavona (1728-1786)
- Te Deum in Re maggiore
Performers: Mikrokosmos; Daniel Zanettovich (conductor)
Further info: Pietro Alessandro Pavona (1728-1786)
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Italian composer. Son of Francesco di Pietro and Giovanna Casoti,
nothing is known about his early years. It is said that he was pupil of
Bartolomeo Cordans (1698-1757), but there is no evidence. He received
the clerical tonsure in Udine and, in 1749, he joined the college
capitular of S. Maria Assunta in Cividale del Friuli. Even he did not
possess assets for the diaconate, two benefactors endowed him regular
income as long as he had not any ecclesiastical benefits. In 1751, after
the death of the titular organist, Giuseppe Zanchetti, he was
unanimously elected to succeed him. His first dated autograph work dates
back to that year. When the titular teacher in the cathedral of
Cividale, Geminiano Santini (1701-1780), resigned from his post in 1754
Pavona replaced him in a post he held the rest of his life. There he
devoted himself to didactic activity as well as composition and
direction of music. He also received commissions from the Battuti and
Santissimo Crocifisso confraternities and from Udine surroundings
between 1778 and 1786. In 1777 he dedicated a collection of sacred songs
for soprano and orchestra to the abbess of the monastery of S. Maria di
Aquileia. In 1784 he was in touch with Francesco Merlini for the
arrangement of the organ, which would then be rebuilt by Gaetano Callido
and officialy inaugurated after his death, in 1788. On 17 October 1786,
at the age of fifty-eight, he died in Manzano. Most of his known works
are preserved in handwritten manuscript in the place where he served for
at least thirty-six years, or in the parish of S. Maria Assunta in
Cividale del Friuli.
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