Domenico Bartolucci

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Domenico Cardinal Bartolucci (2013)
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Domenico Cardinal Bartolucci (born May 7, 1917 in Borgo San Lorenzo , Province of Florence , Italy , † November 11, 2013 in Rome ) was a Cardinal of the Roman Church , church musician and composer . He was the director of the Sistine Chapel choir and was therefore primarily responsible for the music of the papal liturgy.

Life

Domenico Bartolucci was born the son of a brick factory worker. He entered the seminary of the Archdiocese of Florence , where he was recruited as a cantor . At the age of 14 he was already composing motets, madrigals, oratorios and cantatas; During this time he also worked as an organist at the Florence Cathedral . On December 23, 1939, he received the sacrament of ordination through Elijah Cardinal dalla Costa . After the death of his master, Francesco Bagnoli, Bartolucci succeeded him as director of the choir of the Florence Cathedral. During these years he began to compose motets , organ music , madrigals and chamber music. In 1942 Bartolucci was sent to Rome to deepen his knowledge of church music . In 1947 he also became pastor in Montefloscoli in the diocese of Florence.

After Domenico Bartolucci became deputy director of the choir of the Patriarchal Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano , he succeeded Licinio Refices as director of the choir of the Patriarchal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in 1947 . In 1952, on the advice of Maestro Lorenzo Perosis, he was appointed deputy director of the choir of the Sistine Chapel . Perosi was still able to conduct the choir of the Sistine Chapel on March 12, 1955, on the sixteenth anniversary of the Pope's coronation celebrations, but died on October 12, 1956. After his death, Pope Pius XII. Domenico Bartolucci as director of the Sistine Chapel Choir (Direttore Perpetuo della Cappella Musicale Pontificia) . Bartolucci initiated a fundamental reorganization of the centuries-old institution, in which he improved the musical training of the boys' choir significantly; in all this he had the support of Pope John XXIII . The Cappella Musicale Pontificia Sistina has been able to shed its poor musical quality since he took office and improve significantly. On January 21, 1965 Paul VI awarded him . the title of House Prelate of His Holiness . In 1997, despite his title of “perpetual director”, the eighty-year- old Giuseppe Liberto followed as choirmaster of the Sistine Chapel, which was not only met with approval.

On October 25, 2010 he received the honorary award of the Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra together with the brother of the Pope, Prelate Georg Ratzinger , and Clemens Hellsberg , the Austrian music director of the Vienna Philharmonic .

On November 20, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI. the 93-year-old Bartolucci as cardinal deacon with the titled deaconry Santissimi Nomi di Gesù e Maria in Via Lata in the cardinals college. His cardinal coat of arms bore the motto “Psallam Deo Meo”, in German “I will sing to my Lord” ( Ps 145.2  EU ).

Cardinal Bartolucci was one of those priests who continued to celebrate Holy Mass in the Tridentine rite even after the liturgical reform of Vatican II , as he said in an interview regarding the Motu proprio Summorum pontificum of Pope Benedict XVI. mentioned. The newly appointed cardinal celebrated Holy Mass in the extraordinary form of the Roman rite on December 8, 2010 in the Church of Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini in Rome.

He himself conducted the Capella Sistina on January 23, 2011 at the end of a celebration in the Almo Collegio Capranica in Rome . Under his direction, Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli was heard on May 15, 2011 at a mass celebrated by Walter Cardinal Brandmüller in the extraordinary form of the Roman rite at the altar of the cathedra in St. Peter's Basilica.

On August 31, 2011 he organized a concert for Pope Benedict XVI. in Castel Gandolfo , where u. a. also the Ave Maria of his lyrical opera in three acts "Il Brunellesco" was performed. On this occasion, Cardinal Bartolucci composed the piece "Benedictus", a Pope Benedict XVI. Dedicated prayer as thanks. Benedict XVI. then paid tribute to the cardinal in a speech: “The Master Cardinal Bartolucci does not need to be introduced. I would just like to point out three aspects of his life that - in addition to his proud Florentine spirit - clearly characterize him. They are: faith, the priesthood, and music. ... music is your preferred language to communicate the faith of the Church and to help those who hear your works on the path of faith. You performed your priestly service through music. "

On September 28, 2011, Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci solemnly took possession of his Roman titular deaconry Santissimi Nomi di Gesù e Maria in Via Lata .

On September 20, 2012, he gave a concert in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome in honor of Pope Benedict XVI, at which his famous Stabat Mater was performed.

At the conclave in 2013 he took a 80-year-old Cardinal not participate more. He died in Rome in 2013 at the age of 96.

Quotes

  • “Music is the soul of the word that becomes art. It dispenses them to discover the beauty of God and to welcome it. For this reason the church must learn more than before to regain the beauty of music. "
  • “Today it is fashionable to sing pop-inspired songs and strum guitar in churches; This is due to the pseudo-intellectuals who have so distorted the liturgy and music, despising the great legacy of the past. If the art of music does not return to its former greatness without adapting as a minor product, there is no longer any need to ask the question of its role in the Church. I'm against guitars, but I'm also against the superficiality of the Cecilian movement, it's more or less the same. Our motto must be: let us return to Gregorian chant and polyphony in the tradition of Palestrina, let us continue on this path. "
  • "Benedict XVI. has a preference for Gregorian chant and polyphony and wants to reintroduce the use of the Latin language. He understands that without Latin, the repertoire of the past would be destined to disappear into the archive. It is necessary to return to a liturgy that gives space to music, taste for beauty and also true sacred art. "

Works (selection)

The musical work of Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci is published in 49 volumes by Edizioni Cappella Sistina .

Motets

  • Primo libro dei Mottetti (Antifone Mariane), 30 mottetti a 4 voci e Litanie Lauretane
  • Secondo libro dei Mottetti, 25 canti a 1-2-3-4 voci uguali con organo
  • Terzo libro dei Mottetti, 44 mottetti a 4 voci
  • Quarto libro dei Mottetti, 35 mottetti a 5-6-7-8 voci
  • Quinto libro dei Mottetti, 24 mottetti a 4-5-6 voci e organo
  • Sesto libro dei Mottetti, 20 mottetti a 4-5-6-7-8 voci a cappella o con organo
  • Cantica varia, 7 composizioni a 4-5-6 voci a cappella o con organo
  • Sacrae Cantiones, 46 mottetti a più voci

Hymns

  • Hymns, 36 inni a 3-4-5-6 voci per l'anno liturgico
  • Magnificat, 4 cantici a 2-3-4 voci a organo e 8 cantici a 5 voci a cappella sugli 8 modi modali
  • Christmas, 26 composizioni a 1-2-3-4-5-6 voci
  • Easter week, masses, mottetti and responsories a 4-5 voci

Laudi and madrigals

  • Laudi Mariani, 24 laudi a 3-4-7 voci
  • Primo libro dei Madrigali, 18 madrigali a 3-4-5-6 voci
  • Secondo libro dei Madrigali, 13 madrigali a 3-4 voci e pianoforte
  • Miserere, per baritono solo, coro a 6 voci e orchestra; riduzione per canto e pianoforte

measure up

  • Mass (alternate al canto Gregoriano) 8 mass a 4-5 voci
  • Primo libro delle mass, 5 mass a 1-2-3-4 voci
  • Secondo libro delle mass, 5 masses a 2-3-4 voci
  • Terzo libro delle mass, 6 mass a 3-4 voci
  • Quarto libro delle mass (Dominicis infra annum), 5 mass a 3 voci
  • Messa Jubilaei, per coro a 4 voci, organo e piccola orchestra (composed for the Holy Year 1950)
  • Messa Assumptionis, a 6 voci con orchestra
  • Messa in onore di S. Cecilia, per soprano, coro a 4 voci, organo e piccola orchestra
  • Messa pro Defunctis, per soli, coro a 8 voci e orchestra; riduzione per canto e pianoforte
  • Messa de Angelis, per soli, coro a 4 voci e orchestra

Operas and oratorios

  • Brunellesco, lyrical opera in three acts, for choir and orchestra
  • Baptisma, poemetto sacro, choir a 3 voci di soprani contralto and orchestra
  • La Natività, oratorio for solo, 8-part choir and orchestra
  • La Passione, oratorio for solo, 6-part choir and orchestra
  • La tempesta sul lago, oratorio for solo, 4-7 part choir and orchestra
  • Gloriosi Principes, oratorio for solo, 6-part choir and orchestra

Other compositions

  • Trittico Mariano, for organ
  • Organo, compositions for organ and for clavicembalo
  • Sinfonia rustica (Mugellana)
  • Concerto in mi, for piano and orchestra
  • Romanza, con variazioni, for solo violin
  • Sonata in sol, for violin and pianoforte
  • Trio in la, for violin, violoncello e pianoforte
  • Benedictus (in honor of Pope Benedict XVI.), For soprano, three-part choir and orchestra

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annuario Pontificio per l'anno 2006 , Città del Vaticano 2006, p. 1979.
  2. ↑ Pope's brother is awarded for his contributions in music. Romereports, December 26, 2010, accessed April 7, 2018 .
  3. ^ Concistoro Ordinario Pubblico per la Creazione di ventiquattro nuovi Cardinali (Continuazione) , in: Press Office of the Holy See: Daily Bulletin of November 20, 2010.
  4. ↑ Interview with Mons. Bartolucci, "Disputationes Theologicae", 2009
  5. ^ Messa in latino
  6. ↑ Article by Sandro Magister on repubblica.it December 8, 2010
  7. ^ Concerto in onore di Sua Em.za Rev.ma Card. Domenico Bartolucci ( Memento from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ III Convegno sul MP ​​Summorum Pontificum, Roma 13-15 maggio 2011
  9. ↑ orbiscatholicussecundus.blogspot.com: Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci, St. Peter's Basilica, May 15, 2011
  10. ↑ CONCERTO IN ONORE DEL SANTO PADRE BENEDETTO XVI OFFERTO DAL CARDINALE DOMENICO BARTOLUCCI, August 31, 2011
  11. ^ Concert in honor of Pope Benedict XVI. in Castel Gandolfo - compositions by Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci. Zenit, September 1, 2011, accessed April 7, 2018 .
  12. ↑ AVVISO DELL'UFFICIO DELLE CELEBRAZIONI LITURGICHE, September 19, 2011
  13. ↑ Messainlatino, September 20, 2012
  14. ↑ Interview with Domenico Bartolucci. Italian original: www.chiesa.espressonline.it, Rome 2006
  15. ↑ Cardinal Bartolucci: Four decades in the direction of the “Papal Choir” - Interview with the former director of the Sistine Chapel. Zenit, December 17, 2010, accessed April 7, 2018 .
predecessor Office successor
Lorenzo Perosi Head of the Sistine Chapel Choir
1956–1997 		Giuseppe Liberto
personal data
SURNAME Bartolucci, Domenico
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bartolucci, Domenico Cardinal (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman, director of the Sistine Chapel Choir, cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Borgo San Lorenzo , Province of Florence, Italy
DATE OF DEATH 11th. November.2013
Place of death Rome