Pietro Andrea Ziani

Pietro Andrea Ziani (1616 in Venice – 1684 in Naples) was an Italian organist and composer.^[1] He was the uncle of Marc'Antonio Ziani. Beginning in 1669, he was the organist at St Mark's Basilica and later moved on to serve Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg in Vienna.^[2] His works included "L'Assalone punito" (1667) and the operas "Eupatra" (1654-5), "Le fortune di Rodpoe e Damira" (1657), "L'inconstanza Trionfate" (1657-8), "Annibale in Capua" (1660), "Medea Placata" (1661-2), "Gli scherzi di Fortuna" (1661-2), "Le fatiche d'Ercole per Deianira (1661-2), "Amor Guerriero" (1662-3) "La ricreazione burlesca" (1663), "L'invidia conculcata della virtù, merito, virtù, merito, valore di Leopoldo imperatore" (1664), "Cloridea" (1665), "Doriclea" and "Alciade" (1665-6, not performed), "Circe" (1665), "L'Elice" (1666) and "La Galatea" (1667).

De Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo

Recordings

• "L'Assalone punito" Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis. Symphonia 2001.