Zaccaria Tevo

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Zaccaria (Piove di Sacco, March 16, 1651 - after May 1, 1709) was an Italian Franciscan, composer and organist. On 14 March 1665 he entered the community of conventual minor friars in the convent of San Francesco in Treviso , receiving minor orders in 1667. He had his cultural and musical training within the Franciscan order. He himself claims to have learned the first rudiments of composition from a treatise by his father Francesco Maria Angeli, custodian of the Sacred Convent of Assisi He studied philosophy and theology in the convents of the order in various cities: Padua , Macerata , Fermo , where he obtained his bachelor's degree on 8 December 1670, Treviso , again Padua, where he also studied the bassoon , and Venice . In February 1678, he was accepted as a father in the convent of S. Francesco di Treviso , where he held various duties in the musical field: choir director, organist and, if necessary, choirmaster, until July 1705. He left Treviso after July 1705. His name still appears in the documents of the convent in 1706, only to disappear after 1 May 1709. His fame is linked to the treatise Il musico testore, finished writing in 1700, but printed in 1706 in Venice, by Antonio Bortoli. The work, dedicated to the Venetian nobleman Andrea Stazio, mayor of Treviso until 1691, is presented in the form of a ponderous theoretical and practical compendium of extraordinary erudition, full of citations ranging from the authors of Greek and Roman antiquity to those of the

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