Silvani, Marino
Silvani Giuseppe Antonio, *21 January 1672 Bologna, †1727/28 Bologna, Italian publisher and composer, son of Marino. He received his musical education from G.P. Colonna. From 1697, he was a bandmeister in the Confraternità dei Poveri church, and from 1702 until the end of his life in the Basilica of St. Stephen in Bologna. He composed masses, motets, cantatas, antiphons, litanies and oratorios; of his 4 oratorios (Il martirio de Santi Gregorio e Daria, Il Gulia ucciso da Davidde, Giesù Nato, La verita in sogno spiegata da Gioseffo hebreo a Faraone re dell’Egitto) only the librettos have survived.
After his father died in 1711, he took over the company with his brother Matteo, which they ran together in 1712–16, and from 1716 he worked independently. The publishing house published works by young Italian composers (G. Aldrovandini, P. Albergati Capacelli, F. Baroni, P.P. Benedetti, G.A. Bassani, A. Corelli, I. Ghezzi, G.B. Mazzaferrata, F.A. Pistocchi, G.M. Schiassi, G. Taglietti, P.F. Tosi) and songs by G.A. Silvani (including Sacrae lamentazioni Op. 13, Litanies della Beata Vergine Op. 14). Due to financial difficulties, just before Silvani’s death, the publishing house was taken over by unknown successors, acting under the name Eredi di G.A. Silvani, who published the catalogue Defonti della celebre Accademia de’Filarmonici di Bologna (1727).