Gaetano Veneziano
Gaetano Veneziano (Bisceglie, 1656 – Naples, 15 July 1716) was an Italian composer. His son Giovanni Veneziano was also a composer. Veneziano senior studied with Francesco Provenzale at the Conservatorio Santa Maria di Loreto in Naples; where in 1684 he became maestro di cappella.
Gaetano Veneziano
- Died
- 1716. · Naples.
- Occupation
- composer.
- Fields
- opera.
- Movements
- Baroque music.
- Teachers
- Francesco Provenzale.
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Gaetano Veneziano (Bisceglie, 1656 – Naples, 15 July 1716) was an Italian composer. His son Giovanni Veneziano was also a composer. Veneziano senior studied with Francesco Provenzale at the Conservatorio Santa Maria di Loreto in Naples; where in 1684 he became maestro di cappella.
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1716
Gaetano Veneziano died in 1716 at Naples.
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He defeated Cristoforo Caresana in a competition to succeed Alessandro Scarlatti as master of the Spanish royal chapel of Naples in 1704, but after only three years lost the post when the Austrians took control of Naples from the Spanish in 1707.
• on Tenebrae - Musiche per la Settimana Santa a Napoli Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini, dir. Antonio Florio. Glossa 2011. • on In officio defunctorum Ensemble Odyssee. Pan Classics 2015.
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- 1.Julie Anne Sadie Companion to Baroque Music 1998 Page 77 "Veneziano. Father and son, who worked in Naples as organists, maestri di cappella and composers. Gaetano Veneziano (1656-17 16) went to study with Provenzale at the Neapolitan Conservatorio S Maria di Loreto
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