Giacinto Cornacchioli

Giacinto Cornacchioli (* 1599 in Ascoli Piceno , Italy; † September 1, 1673 ibid) was an Italian composer , singer and organist .

Life

Cornacchioli was born in 1599 as the eldest son of six children of the tailor Fulvio Cornacchioli. From the age of eight Giacinto was one of the choirboys of the musical chapel of Ascoli. With the approval of the conductor Federico Raimondi, he was trained as an organist at the age of thirteen. Thanks to his hard work and talent, his annual income grew and Giacinto made a valuable contribution to his family's household budget. Another organist was hired on December 28, 1616, and it is not known what activity he pursued afterwards. It is only known that he lived in Ascoli until 1619. It is likely that Cornacchioli sought his fortune in Rome with his friend Giacomo Francesco Parisani (April 30, 1602) . Giacomo Francesco was the son of a wealthy Ascoli-based family who held theatrical parties on their property during Carnival season. Singers and musicians from Ascoli Cathedral were usually involved on these occasions, which is how the two boys got to know each other.

Rome experienced a period of prosperity under the pontificate of Pope Urban VIII . While half of Europe was turned to rubble by the Thirty Years' War, many artists followed the invitations of the cardinals and the nobility to work in Rome. It can be assumed that Giacinto Cornacchioli also followed the call of money. On June 6, 1629, his first opera Diana Schernita , a Favola boscareccia in five acts, premiered in the residence of the German nobleman Johann Rudolph Freiherr von Hohenrechberg .

In 1635 Cornacchioli left Rome and moved to Vienna . He served at the Bavarian Court in Munich under the conductor Giovanni Giacomo Porro as court chaplain, " musicus " and singing teacher. Later he was in the service of Grand Duke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria . From 1640 to 1642 he traveled across Italy as a musician, constantly hoping to find a job as Kapellmeister. Again and again he received rejections. Disappointed, he wanted to retire to the Cistercian Abbey Heiligenkreuz near Vienna, but his name is not recorded in the files of the local archive.

In February 1651 he returned to his birthplace Ascoli Piceno in Italy, where he found a job as Kapellmeister in the Cathedral of Ascoli. He then moved to the cathedral in Fermo in 1657 and then back to his hometown Ascoli. The last document in which he is mentioned is a letter in which his brother Simone promises him an annual pension of 36 scudi.

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Except for the stage work, which is kept in the character of the Florentine pastoral opera, all works are lost. Music historians assume that some of the anonymous masses preserved in the Favola archive may have come from Cornacchioli's pen

• Diana Schernita (Favola boscareccia, Opera in five acts, 1629, Rome)