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Pietro Andrea Ziani

Born: 21st December 1616, Venice, Italy

Died: 21st February 1684, Naples, Italy

Nationality: Italian

Pietro Andrea Ziani was an Italian organist and composer. 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. 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).

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