Ercole Bernabei
Ercole Bernabei (* um 1622 in Caprarola, † December 5, 1687 in Munich ) was an Italian organist, conductor and composer.
Life and work
His musical education was Ercole Bernabei in Rome, as a pupil of Orazio Benevoli. In the period of 1653-1665 he was, with a brief interruption, replacing Luigi Rossi in the post of organist at San Louis of the French. In July 1665 Bernabei received the appointment as Kapellmeister at the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano. 1667, he was again, this time working as a conductor at " San Louis of the French ." In 1672, he was through the mediation of Queen Christina of Sweden for two years bandmaster of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.
In July 1674 he was invited by Ferdinand Maria of Bavaria, together with his pupil Agostino Steffani to Munich, where he raised in succession by Johann Caspar von Kerll for the position of Kapellmeister. His son, Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei, serving from 1677 under his father as Vice-Kapellmeister and followed him after his death as Kapellmeister.
He created essentially sacred vocal music and some secular cantatas, but during his time in Munich, he also composed five operas, whose music is lost, only two librettos are obtained. Musically, he counted more likely to be Conservatives and advocated a return to the style of composition of Palestrina.
Works (selection)
- Concerto madrigalesco by 3 voci e basso continuo ( 1669, Rome)
- Sacrae modulationes op 2, per 5 voci, 2 violini e basso continuo
- 2 Fair 16 per voci
- 23 fra Mottetti, inni, Antifone by 4-8 voci
- Varie cantate, canzonette, aria per 1 voce e basso continuo