Orazio Benevoli

Orazio Benevoli (* April 19, 1605 in Rome, † June 17, 1672 ) was an Italian conductor and composer.

Life

Orazio Benevoli was the son of from Lothringen confectioner Robert Vernouot. François -Joseph Fétis and Robert Eitner, however, to give in their music encyclopedias that Orazio Benevoli was a natural son of Duke Albert of Lothtringen.

His musical education was Benevoli as a chorister at San Louis of the French, under Vincenzo Ugolini and Lorenzo Ratti ( 1590-1630 ). In 1624, he was charged with 18 years of music at the Church of Santa Maria in Trastevere and 1630 as Kapellmeister at Santo Spirito in Sassia. In 1638 he was the successor of his teacher Ugolini at San Louis of the French, and remained in this position until 1644th At this time he left Rome around until the beginning of 1646 in the service of the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria to be. After his return from Vienna, he received in February 1646 Conductor of Santa Maria Maggiore, but half a year later he became Kapellmeister at the Cappella Giulia at St. Peter's Basilica, a post which he held until his death. To Benevoli students count Ercole Bernabei and Paolo Lorenzani.

Work

He created about twenty fairs and a variety of psalms and motets, and is considered one of the main representatives of the Roman colossus Alba skirt.

The now well-known, rediscovered in the 19th century, 53 -voice Missa Salisburgensis as the Missa Bruxellensis attributed to him earlier. In the meantime, this is refuted. As the creator of the two fair Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber could easily be identified since 1975.