Lorenzo Perosi

Monsignor Lorenzo Perosi ( born December 21, 1872 in Tortona, Piedmont, † October 12, 1956 in Rome) was a Catholic priest and one of the most celebrated and prolific composers of sacred music in Italy. He was the only member of the Giovane Scuola, the " boys school" So, who wrote no operas. He had the biggest international success will occur between 1890 and 1910. Nobel Peace Romain Rolland has praised him, and several popes including Pope St. Pius X were linked in friendship with him. From the pontificate of Leo XIII. until almost the end of the pontificate of Pius XII. he was Kapellmeister of the papal band and thus primarily responsible for the music in the papal liturgy.

  • 2.1 oratorios
  • 2.2 Measure
  • 2.3 instrumental
  • 2.4 symphonic poems
  • 3.1 German
  • 3.2 English
  • 3.3 Italian

Life

From his youth to his great fame

In June 1888, at age fifteen, he went with his father on his first trip to Rome. On this occasion he offered to Pope Leo XIII. some of his compositions to. After studies at the conservatories of Rome and Milan, his father sent him the end of 1890 to the Abbey of Montecassino, where he earned his living as an organist, piano teacher and singing master and eager operational Choral Studies. This was exactly the time when Regensburg and the Benedictine Abbey of Solesmes were in the debate about the authentic interpretation of Gregorian chant.

In the years 1891 and 1892 Perosi again studied at the Milan Conservatory harmony and counterpoint, along with the famous professor and composer Michele Saladino. In January 1893, he studied at the world-famous School of Church Music in Regensburg Franz Xaver Haberl. He also continued his correspondence studies with Professor Saladino. Haberl was so impressed by him that he offered him a double post as church music school professor and Regensburg Cathedral organist. The precocious and homesick boy however, refused politely.

Perosi returned to his old teacher back home to Vigevano ( Lombardy ) and was given the important post of Kapellmeister and seminar choirmaster at Imola. In 1894 he had an encounter Monsignor Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto ( 1835-1914 ), bishop of Mantua and later Pope Pius X, who offered it as a future Patriarch of Venice, the Kapellmeister of San Marco. This meeting on May 25, 1894 was to have far -reaching consequences for Perosi itself but also for sacred music in general.

After Perosi had visited the abbeys of Seckau, Beuron and Solesmes, he was ordained deacon on 22 September 1894. For Christmas of 1894, he directed the Cappella Marciana in Venice for the first time. On May 25, 1895 Perosi was ordained a priest.

The certificate of appointment as Kapellmeister of the Roman Cappella Sistina, dated 15 November 1898 Perosi took in a private audience on December 15, 1898 from the hands of Pope Leo XIII. (1878-1903) opposed. He was now Maestro Perpetuo della Cappella Musicale Pontificia - bandmaster of the papal chapel music for life.

As Perosi these important posts in Imola, in Venice, and finally took in Rome, began his most productive period. All great works perosis, from small moth tablets, to the great oratorios were written during these years. As musical advisor of Pope Pius X. He was a co-author of the Motu proprio Tra le sollecitudini ( About the Church Music ) named.

The last years

As of 1907, physical and mental problems were increasing at him. There, rumors circulated that he was "crazy." In 1922 he was even declared for " incompetent ". But only a year later Perosi was more busy than ever.

Perosis last years were marked by many triumphs. The new departure set soon with the International Congresses of Church Music. During this time Perosi was supported in the management of the Sistine Chapel by Don Antonio Rella (1869-1951), until finally Don Domenico Bartolucci, the cardinal was later, his official assistant was in 1952 and was to succeed him after his death also. In 1953, a Perosi Antonio Feltrinelli Prize. On 12 March 1955 the sixteenth anniversary of the coronation of Pope Pius XII. , Perosi conducted for the last time the Cappella Sistina.

A few hours before his death he spoke this prayer of thanksgiving: " Ti ringrazio Signore di fatto avermi cristiano, di fatto avermi sacerdote, di quello che scrivere avermi fatto il mondo è canta Cantera in tua lode. Amen. "-" I thank you, Lord, let come, that You have called me to the priesthood, that you 've let me write what the world sings your praise and will sing that you have me as Christians to the world. Amen. "

Works (selection)

Oratories

  • La Passione di Cristo (1897 )
  • La Transfiguration di Cristo (1898 )
  • La Risurrezione di Lazzaro (1898 )
  • La Risurrezione di Cristo (1898 )
  • Il Natale del Redentore (1899 )
  • La Strage degli Innocenti (1900)
  • Il Giudizio Universal (1904 )
  • Transitus Animae (1907 )

Measuring

  • Missa In Honorem Ss. Gervasii et Protasii (1895 )
  • Missa " Te Deum Laudamus " (1897 )
  • Missa eucharistica (1897 )
  • Missa ( Prima ) Pontificalis (1897 )
  • Messa da Requiem (1897 )
  • Missa " Benedicamus Domino " (1899 )
  • Missa Cerviana
  • Missa Secunda Pontificalis (1906 )

Instrumental

Symphonic poems

  • Mosè (1900)
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