He owes his love for music to his violinist father Giovanni Battista who played for some years in the chapel of San Marco; he seems to have been a pupil of the musician Giovanni Legrenzi.
Due to his poor health, he approached the church and was ordained a priest in 1703 and soon became a violin and composition teacher at the women's conservatory of the Pio Ospedale della Pietà. It was precisely in this school intended for orphaned or abandoned girls, one of the four most famous in Venice, that he made his main sacred and sung music and his main concerts and assumed, over the years
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