Marc'Antonio Ziani (c. 1653 – 22 January 1715) was an Italian composer living in Vienna. Ziani was born in

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The isla ...

. He probably studied with his uncle, the organist

Pietro Andrea Ziani Pietro Andrea Ziani (1616 in Venice 1684 in Naples) was an Italian organist and composer.Rappresentazione sacra: geistliches Musikdrama am Wiener Kaiserhof Richard Bletschacher - 1985 PIETRO ANDREA ZIANI Wurde am 21. 12. 1616 in Venedig getauft. ...

. From 1686 to 1691 Ziani was ''maestro di cappella'' to Duke Ferdinando Carlo di Gonzaga in Mantua, but simultaneously developed his career as an opera composer in Venice. In 1700 Ziani was appointed vice ''Hofkapellmeister'' to Leopold I in Vienna, and on 1 January 1712 Charles VI promoted him to ''Hofkapellmeister''. He was succeeded by

Johann Fux Johann Joseph Fux (; – 13 February 1741) was an Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue of the late Baroque era. His most enduring work is not a musical composition but his treatise on counterpoint, '' Gradus ad Parnassum'', which has ...

.Eleanor Selfridge-Field ''Venetian instrumental music from Gabrieli to Vivaldi'' 1994 p. 173 He died in

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Recordings

*''Alma Redemptoris Mater'', in ''Stabat Mater: Sances, Bertali, Schmelzer''. Carlos Mena &

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conductor. Mirare. 2007.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ziani, MarcAntonio 1650s births 1715 deaths 18th-century Italian male musicians Italian Baroque composers Italian male classical composers Musicians from Venice 18th-century Italian composers