Bianco, Pietro Antonio
Bianco, Pietro Antonio
Bianco, Pietro Antonio, Italian singer and composer; b. Venice, c. 1540; d. Graz (buried), Feb. 2, 1611. He was a canon at S. Salvatore in Venice. He became a tenor at the Hofkapelle in Graz in 1578, being named Hofkapellmeister there in 1595. He composed both secular and religious vocal music.
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