Francesco Antonio Mamiliano Pistocchi, nicknamed Pistocchino (165913 May 1726), was an Italian singer, composer and librettist.Talbot, Michael
''The chamber cantatas of Antonio Vivaldi''
Boydell Press, 2006, p. 52. Pistocchino was born in

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. He was a boy soprano prodigy, and later made his career as a

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. From 1696 to 1700 he was ''

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'' for the Duke of Ansbach. After 1700 he founded a singing school in

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, where he died. He was elected president of the Academia Filarmonica twice, in 1708 and 1710. His pupil was

Annibale Pio Fabri Annibale Pio Fabri (Bologna, 1697 – 12 August 1760, Lisbon), also known as ''Balino'', from ''Annibalino'', diminutive of his first name, was an Italian singer and composer of the 18th century. One of the leading tenors of his age in a time domi ...

Works

* ''Il Leandro'' (libretto by Camillo Badovero, Venice, Teatro alle Zattere, 5 May 1679, then Teatro S. Moisè, 1682, as ''Gli amori fatali'') * ''Il Narciso'', pastorale (

Apostolo Zeno Apostolo Zeno (11 December 1668 in Venice – 11 November 1750 in Venice) was a Venetian poet, librettist, journalist, and man of letters. Early life Apostolo Zeno was born in Venice to a colonial branch of the Zeno family, an ancient Venet ...

Ansbach Court Theatre, March 1697) * ''Le pazzie d'amore e dell'interesse'', (own libretto, Ansbach, 16 June 1699) * ''Le risa di Democrito'' (

Nicolò Minato Count Nicolò Minato (b. Bergamo, ca. 1627; d. Vienna, 28 February 1698) was an Italian poet, librettist and impresario. His career can be divided into two parts: the years he spent at Venice, from 1650 to 1669, and the years at Vienna, from 1669 un ...

, Vienna, 17 February 1700) * ''La pace tra l'armi'', serenata (own libretto, Ansbach 5 Sept. 1700) . '' Bertoldo (1707) * ''I rivali generosi'',

dramma per musica Dramma per musica (Italian, literally: ''drama for music'', plural: ''drammi per musica'') is a libretto. The term was used by dramatists in Italy and elsewhere between the mid-17th and mid-19th centuries. In modern times the same meaning of ''dra ...

(

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, April 1710), composed with Clemente Monati and Giovanni Maria Capelli

Oratorios

. Il Martirio di San Adriano (Venice,1699) . Maria Vergine Addolorata (1698) . La fuga di Sta. Teresia (1717)

Other works

. Scherzi Musicali (collection of French, Italian and German arias) . Duetti e terzetti(1707) . 147th psalm and other church music and cantatas . Cappricci puerili variamente composti in 40 modi sopra un basso d'un balletto (pieces for the harpsichord, harp, violin and other instruments 1667)

Recordings

* Oratorio ''San Adriano'' Symphonia

References

External links

* 1659 births 1726 deaths Italian Baroque composers Castrati Italian male classical composers Italian librettists 18th-century Italian male opera singers 17th-century Italian male opera singers 17th-century Italian composers 18th-century Italian composers {{italy-composer-stub