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PITONI, GIUSEPPE OTTAVIO (1657-1743)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 667 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PITONI, GIUSEPPE OTTAVIO (1657-1743) , See also:Italian musical composer, was See also:born at See also:Rieti on the 18th of See also:March 1657. He came to See also:Rome as a boy and sang in the See also:choir of SS Apostoli. See also:Foggia gave him instructions in See also:counterpoint, and he became See also:maestro di Cappella, first at Terra di Rotondo and later (1673) at See also:Assisi. In 1676 he went to Rieti, and in 1677 to Rome, where he held various appointments, dying on the 1st of See also:February 1743 as maestro di Cappella at St Marco, where he was buried. Pitoni appears to have devoted himself exclusively to See also:church See also:music, and although he did not disdain the See also:modern See also:style with instrumental See also:accompaniment, he is best known by his Masses and other See also:works in the manner of See also:Palestrina. Several volumes of his autograph See also:composition are in the See also:Santini Library at Ibliinster.

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