Asprilio Pacelli

Asprilio Pacelli

Asprilio Pacelli (* around 1570 in Vasciano (district of Stroncone ), Umbria , † May 4, 1623 in Warsaw ) was an Italian conductor and composer .

He probably received his musical training in Rome and worked there as Kapellmeister at various churches since 1594, most recently at St. Peter's Basilica . After a short time in this position, the King of Poland , Sigismund III. to take over the leadership of his band. Pacelli followed this wish and spent the last twenty years of his life in Krakow and Warsaw. Before him, the band had been directed by Luca Marenzio and was on a high musical level. Pacelli was able to maintain this standard.

He created an extensive work, a large part of which is said to have been lost. Some madrigals , motets and psalms as well as other works in collections have been preserved. Pacelli was stylistically in the Roman tradition, his works are of great musical and craftsmanship quality and exerted a strong influence on the development of music in Poland. Despite its great importance for Polish music history, Pacelli's work has so far only been documented on a CD. The Koblenz baroque ensemble Cappella Confluentes produced a live CD in 2004 with a reconstructed Easter vesper from 1615, whereby the double-choir Psalms Pacellis from a print from 1598 (Motectorum et Psalmorum qui octonis vocibus) still clearly show the influences of his Roman times.

bibliography

Biographies

• Mirosław Perz, «Asprilio Pacelli». In New Grove Dictionary

literature

• Alberto Cametti, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina , Ed. Ricordi, 1894.