Benedetto Pamphili

Benedetto Pamphili, also Pamphilij or Pamphili, ( born April 25, 1653 Rome, † March 22, 1730 ) was an Italian cardinal, librettist and composer.

Family

Benedetto Pamphili came from the noble family of the Pamphili family from Umbria. His father, a nephew of Pope Innocent X ( Giovanni Battista Pamphili ), was the former Cardinal Camillo Francesco Maria Pamphili, 1647 his cardinalate to marry Olimpia Aldobrandini, Princess of Rossano and widow of the prematurely deceased Paolo Borghese ( 1622-1642 ), gave up and had to leave at the urging of his mother Olimpia Maidalchini Rome.

Life

Pope Innocent XI. appointed him in 1678 to the Grand Prior of Rome of the Sovereign Order of Malta; He was a member of the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem. He was appointed on September 1, 1681 to cardinal deacon with the title of Santa Maria in Campitelli and was ordained a priest on December 24, 1684. This was followed by the title Sant'Agata dei Goti Churches (1685 /89), San Cesareo in Palatio, Santa Maria in Cosmedin (1686 /88), Santa Agata alla Suburra ( 1688/1693 ) and Santa Maria in Via Lata ( 1693/1730 ). He was archpriest of Santa Maria Maggiore (1694/1699) and the Lateran Basilica ( 1699/1730 ). He also worked for the Vatican Secret Archives (1704/1730) and the Vatican Library ( 1704/1730 ).

In 1685 he was appointed Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura. From 1693 to 1730 he was a deacon of the College of Cardinals. He participated in the conclave of 1689, 1691, 1700, 1721 and 1724.

Benedetto Pamphili was a significant personalities of culture and arts of Rome in the 17th and 18th century ( Palazzo Doria Pamphili - ), especially as a patron of music. He was the author of numerous oratorio librettos, sonnets and secular cantata texts, some of which he also set to music himself.

Works (selection)

  • S. Maria Maddalena de ' Pazzi. Oratorio della sua da cantarsi nel giorno alla festa presenza dell'eminentiss. sig. card.le de ' Medici ( Rome 1687 )
  • Conversione di S. M. Maddalena. Oratorio a tre voci nella chiesa because cantarsi de ' padri della Congregazione dell' Oratorio di S. Filippo Neri di Firenze, music composer Alessandro Scarlatti (Florence 1693)
  • S. Francesca Romana. Oratorio a cinque voci nella chiesa because cantarsi de ' padri della Congregazione dell'Oratorio di S. Filippo Neri di Firenze, music Alessandro Melani (Florence 1693)
  • Il sagrifizio di Abel. Oratorio a quattro voci da cantarsi nella chiesa de ' padri della Congregazione dell'Oratorio di S. Filippo Neri di Firenze, music Alessandro Melani (Florence 1693)
  • S. Rosa di Viterbo del sacro ordine di S. Francesco. Oratorio a cinque voci nella chiesa because cantarsi de ' padri della Congregazione dell' Oratorio di San Filippo Neri di Firenze, music Alessandro Melani (Florence 1693)
  • Il Martyrdom of S. Vittoria. Oratorio a quattro voci da cantarsi nella chiesa de ' padri della Congregazione dell' Oratorio di S. Filippo Neri di Firenze, music Giovanni del Violone (Florence 1693)
  • L ' Ismaele soccorso dall' angelo. Oratorio a cinque voci nella because cantarsi venerabible compagnia dell ' Angiolo Raffaello detta la scala, music composer Alessandro Scarlatti (Florence 1695)
  • Il trionfo della grazia o vero La conversione di SM Maddalena oratorio a tre voci da cantarsi nel Collegio Tolomei di Siena nobil, music composer Alessandro Scarlatti (Florence 1699)
  • Santa Maria Maddalena de ' Pazzi. Oratorio dedicated to the convittori del Collegio Clementino alla madre suor Maria Grazia di S. Clemente Carmelitana (Rome 1705)
  • Triumph of the Virgin ascended into heaven. Oratorio for 4 voices to be sung in the venerabil compagnia of the Purification of the Virgin Mary and S. Zanobi detta di S. Marco, Alessandro Scarlatti Music (Florence 1706)
  • The Triumph of Grace. Oratorio, Antonio Maria Bononcini Music (Vienna 1707)
  • Sedecia king of Jerusalem. Oratorio per musica da cantarsi nelle punch de ' Paggi d' onore di sua altezza real dedicato as ' medesimi al gran duca Serenissimo (Florence 1707)
  • La Bellezza raveduta nel trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno. Oratorio, Music Georg Friedrich Händel (Rome 1707)
  • The prodigal son. Oratorio, Music Carlo Francesco Cesarini (Rome 1708)
  • Maria Maddalena de ' pazzi. Oratorio a quattro voci fatta cantare as monsignor Sebastiano Pompilio Bonaventura vescovo Montefiascone, e Corneto alla presenza delle realized maestà di Giacomo della Gran Bretagna Terzo re, e Maria Clementina Sobieschi di lui regia consorte, music composer Alessandro Scarlatti ( Montefiascone 1719)

For Handel's oratorio Il two-part trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (HWV 46a) dates from 1707 no premiere is detectable, therefore, is the establishment of this performance into the Collegio Germanico in Rome, as is often claimed, pure speculation. However, demonstrated the performances of Handel's later adaptations as Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verità, Oratorio in tre parti, (HWV 46b, London, March 23, 1737) and The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio in three parts ( English version of George Oldmixon, and Thomas Morell, HWV 71, London, March 11, 1757 at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden).

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