Giovanni Giorgi (composer)

Giovanni Giorgi (* 1690 in Veneto, † in June 1762 in Lisbon, also Joannis de Georgiis ) was an Italian composer and priest.

Life

Giovanni Giorgi, who was in his own words from Venice, enjoyed the highest reputation during his lifetime as a musician. He received his education at St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, where he learned the nursed style. Giorgi occurred in September 1719, successor of Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni as maestro di cappella at the papal basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome. In January 1725 he found employment as a mestre de capela at the court of Lisbon.

Work

Giorgis compositional output includes around 600 works of sacred music (some with instrumental accompaniment ), including 33 polychoral measuring with part 16 -voice cast, as well as a few secular cantatas. His early work was in Rome, in his work, the stylistic transition from the high Baroque to Vorklassik reflects. Giovanni Giorgi united the various stylistic tendencies of the Roman school, to the use of short instrumental overtures, the liturgical function always has priority. The 16 - part mass Servite Domino contains many stylistic elements of Orazio Benevoli.

Many of his works are largely unexplored, in the archives of the Cathedral of Lisbon, where they were spared from the momentous 1755 earthquake, as well as in the archives of the Lateran Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore .. Expenses incurred during the last two decades of life works ( Kathedralarchiv Lisbon ) were long thought to be lost. In this creative period Giorgi is making the transition from high to pre-classical Baroque.

  • 33 Exhibition by 2, 4, 8 e 16 voci e strumenti
  • 145 Graduali by 2, 4 e 8 voci e strumenti
  • 137 Antifone per 2 e 4 voci e strumenti
  • 152 Offertori by 2, 4 e 8 voci e strumenti
  • 162 Salmi by 4, 5 e 8 voci e organo
  • 49 hymns by 4 voci
  • 20 Responsori per voci e strumenti 4 e 8
  • 162 Mottetti by 2, 4 e 8 e strumenti
  • 5 Sequenze by 4 voci
  • Varie lamentazioni per 8 voci
  • Canone in subdiapason per 16 voci ( 1719 approx )
  • 5 Cantate per soprano e organo
  • Vari madrigali by 5 voci
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