Ercole Bernabei
Ercole Bernabei (* around 1622 in Caprarola ; † December 5, 1687 in Munich ) was an Italian organist , conductor and composer .
Live and act
Ercole Bernabei received his musical education in Rome as a student of Orazio Benevoli . From 1653 to 1665 he was, with a short interruption, the successor of Luigi Rossi in the office of organist at San Luigi dei Francesi . In July 1665 Bernabei was appointed Kapellmeister at the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano . In 1667 he worked again, this time as Kapellmeister at "San Luigi dei Francesi". In 1672, through the mediation of Queen Christina of Sweden, he became Kapellmeister of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican for two years .
In July 1674, Bernabei came to Munich at the invitation of Ferdinand Maria von Bayern , together with his pupil Agostino Steffani , where he succeeded Johann Caspar von Kerll as court conductor. His son, Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei , served as vice conductor under his father from 1677 and followed him as conductor after his death.
He created mainly sacred vocal music and some secular cantatas , but during his time in Munich he also composed five operas , the music of which has been lost, only two libretti have survived. Musically, Bernabei was one of the conservatives and advocated a return to Palestrina's compositional style .
Works (selection)
- Concerto madrigalesco per 3 voci e basso continuo (1669, Rome)
- Sacrae modulationes op. 2, per 5 voci, 2 violini e basso continuo
- 2 fair per 16 voci
- 23 fra mottetti, inni, antifone per 4-8 voci
- Varie cantate, canzonette, aria per 1 voce e basso continuo
literature
- Werner Bollert: Bernabei, Ercole. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 101 ( digitized version ). (only genealogical data, the actual article text can be found in the online NDB under Bernabei, Giuseppe Antonio )
- E. Katzbichler: About the life and the secular vocal works of Ercole Bernabei. Dissertation LMU Munich 1963.
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Ercole Bernabei in the International Music Score Library Project
- List of stage works by Ercole Bernabei based on the MGG at Operone
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Eitner: Biographical-bibliographical source-lexicon of musicians and music scholars (1900) p. 464
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bernabei, Ercole |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bernabei, Giuseppe Ercole |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian organist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1622 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Caprarola |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 5, 1687 |
| Place of death | Munich |