Cappella Giulia

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Cappella Giulia
Seat: Vatican cityVatican Vatican
Carrier: St. Peter's Basilica
Founding: 1513
Founder: Pope Julius II
Head : Jafet Ramón Ortega Trillo
Voices : 25 (SATB) / 22 (TTBB)
Website : www.cappellagiulia.org

The Cappella Giulia is a choir of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City . He organizes all liturgical celebrations of the Vatican Chapter with music, except for those with the participation of the Pope , for which the Papal Choir of the Sistine Chapel performs the choral service. The Capella Giulia consists of two singing ensembles: the mixed choir (male and female voices) conducts the Holy Masses of the Chapter and the second Vespers on the solemn festivals ; the male choir organizes the vespers on Sundays in the annual cycle as well as on certain feast days.

The name "Giulia" goes back to Pope Julius II , who completely reorganized the choir in 1513.

history

After the end of the Avignon papacy (1377), the papal chapel that had emerged from the Schola cantorum was initially reserved exclusively for the Pope's service , so that St. Peter's Basilica did not have its own singing group at times. A first attempt to establish a choir, which Pope Sixtus IV made in 1480, was unsuccessful. Only Julius II succeeded on February 19, 1513 with the constitution In Altissimo to formally establish the chapel of St. Peter's Basilica. However, since he died the following night, it took another thirty years until Pope Paul III. 1534 filled the constitution with life.

In the centuries that followed, the choir devoted itself particularly to sacred vocal polyphony. The choir masters included important and famous musicians such as Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina , Orazio Benevoli and Domenico Scarlatti , as well as some important organists such as Ercole Pasquini and Girolamo Frescobaldi .

The choir was dissolved in 1979 and temporarily replaced in 1980 by the male choir Cappella Musicale della Basilica di San Pietro . In 2008 the Cappella Giulia was brought back to life by the Vatican chapter under the old name. In contrast to the older tradition, the upper voices ( soprano and alto ) are currently no longer occupied with boy's, but with women's voices.

Kapellmeister

Cappella Musicale della Basilica di San Pietro
  • Pablo Colino (1980-2006)
  • Claudio Dall'Albero (2006-2007)
  • Pierre Paul (2007-2008)
Cappella Giulia (again)
  • Pierre Paul (2008-2015)
  • Jafet Ramón Ortega Trillo (since 2015)

literature

  • Giancarlo Rostirolla: Musica e musicisti nella Basilica di San Pietro. Cinque secoli di storia della Cappella Giulia. 2 volumes. Edizioni Capitolo Vaticano, Rome 2015, ISBN 978-88-6339-040-7 .
  • Giancarlo Rostirolla: La Cappella Giulia 1513-2013. Cinque secoli di musica sacra in San Pietro. 2 volumes. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2017, ISBN 978-3-7618-2137-4 , eBook ISBN 978-3-7618-7145-4 .
  • Klaus Pietschmann: Concert of Nations. On the ›European‹ character of musical life in Rome and at the papal court of the Renaissance. In: Roland Alexander Ißler, Almut-Barbara Renger (Hrsg.): Europe - bull and star wreath: From the union with Zeus to the union of states. V&R unipress GmbH, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89971-566-8 , pp. 473-481 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Bernhard Schrammek : Between Church and Carnival. Biography, social environment and work of the Roman conductor Virgilio Mazzocchi (1597–1646). Bärenreiter, Kassel [u. a.] 2001, ISBN 3-7618-1358-9 . Dissertation at the same time, University of Berlin, 2000 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Gunnar Wiegand: The Cappella Giulia in the 18th century. In: ders .: The masses at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome in the 18th century (= contributions to the history of church music. 18). Schöningh, Paderborn 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78103-1 , eBook ISBN 978-3-657-78103-4 , pp. 22–43, DOI: 10.1163 / 9783657781034_004 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Padre Ramon Ortega è il nuovo direttore della Cappella Giulia. Sant'Anna in Vaticano, January 12, 2015, accessed on January 26, 2020