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

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. He probably studied with his uncle, the organist Pietro Andrea Ziani. 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. *''La Morte vinta sul Calvario'' (1706). Les Traversées Baroques, Etienne Meyer conductor.

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. 2024.

References

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