Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697-1763) - Messa a 4 voci

Buon compleanno Giovanni Benedetto Platti! 🎹🎉 Composer: Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697-1763) Work: Messa (in La maggiore) a 4 voci Performers: Simona Cerboneschi (soprano); Piera Casula (contralto); Fabio Fresi (tenor); Paolo Ruggiero (baritone); Antonio Pala (bass); Cantori della Resurrezione, Orchestra Cooperativa Teatrio e/o Musica di Sassari; Antonio Sanna (conductor) Messa a 4 voci 1. Kyrie 0:00 2. Gloria 2:31 3. Credo 6:37 4. Sanctus 12:05 5. Benedictus 14:26 6. Agnus Dei 16:06 Painting: Giovanni Antonio Canal ’Canaletto’ (1697-1768) - Prà della Valle in Padua HD image: Further info: Listen free: --- Giovanni Benedetto Platti (Padua, 9 July 1692 - Würzburg, 11 January 1763) Italian composer. Almost nothing is known about him before 1722, but in Venice his teachers might have included Francesco Gasparini, Albinoni, Vivaldi, Lotti, Alessandro Marcello or Benedetto Marcello. His father Carlo Platti ( 1727), a violetta player in the orchestra of the basilica of S Marco, may also have taught him. While he was still in Italy (until 1722), he probably saw the recently invented fortepiano and a few of his keyboard solo sonatas and concertos might have been composed for it instead of the harpsichord but this point is debatable. In the chamber works (duets and trios) the harpsichord is clearly the instrument required. No “piano“ or “forte“ indications are on Platti’s keyboard parts in his concertos for harpsichord and strings, though. Also, the extension of at least one of these concertos asks for a D that is beyond Cristofori’s instrument’s compass (4 octaves CC to c4). In 1722, he was called to Würzburg to work for the prince-bishop of Bamberg and Würzburg, Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn. There he married Theresia Langprückner, a soprano singer with whom he had at least two children. Platti spent the rest of his life in Würzburg, working as a singer, instrument virtuoso, composer and conductor. His duties included finding musicians for the court , as one can read in one of his autograph letters that are available. His music consists of three Masses, a Requiem, a Stabat mater, three cantatas, an offertory, 48 concertos (many lost), 22 trio sonatas, and 20 keyboard sonatas.