La Mort vinta sul Calvario

Poetic Power For the year 1706, the then Habsburg vice-kapellmeister Marc'Antonio Ziani wrote La Morte vinta sul Calvario, a piece of Good Friday music that was typical of the Viennese court. Various allegorical figures such as "Faith", "Human Nature" and "The Soul of Adam" engage in a rhetorical dispute with the devil, who rejoices in the death of Christ. The text is of great poetic power, underscored by Ziani's magnificent music, which is very colorful and contrasting with obligato instrumental parts and sometimes sophisticated counterpoint.