Giacomo Carissimi
Giacomo Carissimi (baptized April 18, 1605 in Marino near Rome, † January 12, 1674 in Rome ) was an Italian composer .
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Giacomo Carissimi received his early training as a choirboy at the Cathedral of Tivoli under the conductor Aurelio Briganti Colonna , Alessandro Capece (around 1575 to around 1640) and Francesco Manelli . From 1623 Carissimi sang in the cathedral choir and between 1624 and 1627 he was organist. In 1628 he became Kapellmeister at the Cathedral of Assisi and in the same year he was appointed Kapellmeister at the Basilica minor Sant'Apollinare of the Collegium Germanicum in Rome. In this rather modest position, Carissimi developed a radical reorganization of almost all subjects of contemporary music.
The reform movement of Italian music that began in the early 17th century received its first conclusion through Carissimi. He shaped the secular cantata , the aria and the duet in such a skilful way that the whole further development of these forms was based on his ideas. This applies in particular to the recitative . Carissimi also gave the choirs increased expressiveness.
One of the composer's main merits is that he also tried to impose this new style on church music . For this purpose he composed a number of histories in cantatas. Here the accompanied solo singing combined with expressive choirs. With this he invented the later biblical oratorio . One of his students was probably Alessandro Scarlatti , but certainly Philipp Jakob Baudrexel , Antonio Cesti and Marc-Antoine Charpentier .
Carissimi was buried in Sant'Apollinare.
His successor as Maestro di Cappella in the Collegio Germanico 1686 describes him as "very frugal in his internal affairs, very noble manners towards friends and acquaintances, tall, thin and prone to melancholy".
Works (selection)
- Oratorios
- Historia di Jephte
- Baltazar
- Jonas
- Judicium Salomonis
- Historia Divitis
- Dives malus
- Historia di Job
- Vanitas Vanitatum
- Oratorio della SS Vergine
- Ars cantandi. A guide to the art of singing. (German translation Augsburg 1696)
literature
- Cesare Casellato: Carissimi, Giacomo. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 20: Carducci-Carusi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1977.
- Andrew V. Jones: Carissimi, Giacomo. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- Günther Massenkeil: Carissimi, Giacomo. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 4 (Camarella - Couture). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1114-4 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
- Günther Massenkeil: The oratorical art in the Latin histories and oratorios by G. Carissimis, dissertation Mainz 1952
Web links
- Works by and about Giacomo Carissimi in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Giacomo Carissimi in the German Digital Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Giacomo Carissimi in the International Music Score Library Project
- Giacomo Carissimi program booklet for evening music in the Predigerkirche Basel (direction Jörg-Andreas Bötticher ), August 2017
- Walter Liedtke: April 18th, 1605 - Birthday of Giacomo Carissimi WDR ZeitZeichen on April 18th, 2020 (Podcast)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simone Sorini: Gli oratori latini di Giacomo Carissimi. Jephte e Jonas.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carissimi, Giacomo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian composer and organist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | baptized April 18, 1605 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marino near Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1674 |
| Place of death | Rome |