Pietro Alessandro Pavona (1728-1786) - Te Deum
Buon compleanno Pietro Alessandro Pavona! 📯👑
Composer: Pietro Alessandro Pavona (1728-1786)
Work: Te Deum in Re maggiore
Performers: Mikrokosmos; Daniel Zanettovich (conductor)
Drawing: Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint-Germain (1754-1842) - Marché-neuf, No. 9 - Le lutrin (1815)
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Engraving: Georg Braun (1541-1622) & Franz Hogenberg (1539-1590) - Den venetianiska modellstaden Palmanova
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Further info: https://ilpolifonico.it/discografia/
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Pietro Alessandro Pavona
(Palmanova, 15 June 1728 - Manzano, 17 October 1786)
Italian composer. Son of Francesco di Pietro and Giovanna Casoti, nothing is known about his early years. It is said that he was pupil of Bartolomeo Cordans (1698-1757), but there is no evidence. He received the clerical tonsure in Udine and, in 1749, he joined the college capitular of S. Maria Assunta in Cividale del Friuli. Even he did not possess assets for the diaconate, two benefactors endowed him regular income as long as he had not any ecclesiastical benefits. In 1751, after the death of the titular organist, Giuseppe Zanchetti, he was unanimously elected to succeed him. His first dated autograph work dates back to that year. When the titular teacher in the cathedral of Cividale, Geminiano Santini (1701-1780), resigned from his post in 1754 Pavona replaced him in a post he held the rest of his life. There he devoted himself to didactic activity as well as composition and direction of music. He also received commissions from the Battuti and Santissimo Crocifisso confraternities and from Udine surroundings between 1778 and 1786. In 1777 he dedicated a collection of sacred songs for soprano and orchestra to the abbess of the monastery of S. Maria di Aquileia. In 1784 he was in touch with Francesco Merlini for the arrangement of the organ, which would then be rebuilt by Gaetano Callido and officialy inaugurated after his death, in 1788. On 17 October 1786, at the age of fifty-eight, he died in Manzano. Most of his known works are preserved in handwritten manuscript in the place where he served for at least thirty-six years, or in the parish of S. Maria Assunta in Cividale del Friuli. #ClassicalMusic