Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni

Italian organist and composer (1657–1743)

Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni worked in music at a period when the art was changing shape around them.

The record lists Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni as Italian organist and composer (1657–1743).

Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni was born at Rieti in 1657.

Music then was written to commission, for a court, a church or a patron, and a composer's freedom was bounded by whoever paid.

He worked as composer, conductor and musicologist.

The instruments recorded are organ.

A musical reputation rests on a handful of works that refuse to date.

Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni died in 1743, aged 86. The recordings and scores remain, which is the only durable form a musical life takes.

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