Gaetano Veneziano (

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, 1656 –

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, 15 July 1716) was an Italian composer.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 in 1666 ... His son Giovanni Veneziano was also a composer. Veneziano senior studied with

Francesco Provenzale Francesco Provenzale (25 September 1632 – 6 September 1704) was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. Notably Provenzale was the teacher of famed castrato 'il cavaliere ...

at the Conservatorio Santa Maria di Loreto in Naples in 1666; where in 1684 he became ''

maestro di cappella (, also , ) from German ''Kapelle'' (chapel) and ''Meister'' (master)'','' literally "master of the chapel choir" designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians. Originally used to refer to somebody in charge of music in a chapel, the term ha ...

.'' 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.

Recordings

* on ''Tenebrae - Musiche per la Settimana Santa a Napoli '' Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini, dir. Antonio Florio. Glossa 2011.

References

1656 births 1716 deaths Italian Baroque composers Italian male classical composers 18th-century Italian composers 18th-century Italian male musicians {{Italy-composer-stub