Marc'Antonio Ziani was an Italian composer in Vienna.

Marc'Antonio was born in Venice

Venice

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. He probably studied with his uncle, the organist Pietro Andrea Ziani

Pietro Andrea Ziani

Pietro Andrea Ziani was an Italian organist and composer. He was uncle of Marc'Antonio Ziani. His works included „L'Assalone punito" and the operas „La ricreazione burlesca" , „L'invidia conculcata della virtù, merito, virtù, merito, valore di Leopoldo imperatore" , „Cloridea " , „Circe" ,...

. 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

Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor

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 in Vienna, and on 1 January 1712 Charles VI

Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor

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 promoted him to Hofkapellmeister. He was succeeded by Johann Fux

Johann Fux

Johann Joseph Fux was an Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue of the late Baroque era. He is most famous as the author of Gradus ad Parnassum, a treatise on counterpoint, which has become the single most influential book on the Palestrina style of Renaissance polyphony...

. He died in Vienna

Vienna

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Recordings

• Alma Redemptoris Mater, in Stabat Mater: Sances, Bertali, Schmelzer. Carlos Mena & Ricercar Consort, Philippe Pierlot conductor. Mirare. 2007.