Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti (23 December 1801 – November 1878) was an Italian classical guitarist and composer.
Biography
Zani de Ferranti was born in
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...
. He began on the violin, but switched to guitar at age 16. In 1820, he moved to Paris and later to
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
, before settling in Belgium. He later toured in France, England, Italy, and the United States. Although praised by
Hector Berlioz in 1859, as well as by Rossini and Paganini, Zani de Ferranti found the 1850s to be a period of decline and financial difficulty.
A Concise History of the Classic Guitar By Graham Wade pgs 86–87
/ref> He died in Pisa. His son, Giulio Cesare Ziani de Ferranti, moved from Belgium to Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a populat ...
, where he became a portrait photographer, setting up a studio with father-in-law, the portrait artist William Scott. His son, the inventor Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
Sebastian Pietro Innocenzo Adhemar Ziani de Ferranti (9 April 1864 – 13 January 1930) was a British electrical engineer and inventor.
Personal life
Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti was born in Liverpool, England. His Italian father, Cesare, was a ...
, established the electronic engineering firm Ferranti
Ferranti or Ferranti International plc was a UK electrical engineering and equipment firm that operated for over a century from 1885 until it went bankrupt in 1993. The company was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
The firm was known ...
in the family name.
Sources
External links
Publications
The King's guitarist: The life and times of Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti
by Marcus G.S. Van de Cruys (, )
Zani de Ferranti – a biography
b
Simon Wynberg
(Chanterelle, ECH914)
Sheet music
Rischel & Birket-Smith's Collection of guitar music1
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Denmark
George C. Krick Collection of Guitar Music
Washington University
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1801 births
1878 deaths
Italian classical guitarists
Italian male guitarists
Italian classical composers
Italian male classical composers
Italian Romantic composers
Musicians from Bologna
Composers for the classical guitar
19th-century classical composers
19th-century Italian male musicians
19th-century guitarists
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