Giovanni Giorgi (composer)
Giovanni Giorgi (* around 1690 in Veneto , † in June 1762 in Lisbon ; also Joannis de Georgiis ) was an Italian composer and priest.
Life
Giovanni Giorgi, who, according to his own statement, came from Venice, enjoyed the highest reputation as a musician during his lifetime. He received his education at St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, where he learned the style cultivated there. In September 1719, Giorgi succeeded Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni as maestro di cappella at the papal basilica of S. Giovanni Laterano in Rome. In January 1725 he found a job as mestre de capela at the court of Lisbon .
plant
Giorgi's compositional oeuvre includes around 600 works of church music (some with instrumental accompaniment), including 33 multi-choir masses, some with 16-part cast, as well as a few secular cantatas. His early work was created in Rome, the stylistic transition from the high baroque to the pre-classical period is reflected in his work. Giovanni Giorgi combined the various stylistic tendencies of the Roman school, including the use of short instrumental overtures, whereby the liturgical function always takes precedence. The 16-part Mass Servite Domino contains numerous stylistic elements by Orazio Benevoli .
Much of his works are, for the most part unexplored, in the archives of Lisbon Cathedral, where they were spared the catastrophic earthquake of 1755 , as well as in the archives of the Lateran Basilica and of Santa Maria Maggiore . The works created in the last two decades of life (Lisbon Cathedral Archives) have long been considered lost. During this creative period, Giorgi made the transition from high baroque to pre-classical.
- 33 Mass per 2, 4, 8 e 16 voci e strumenti
- 145 Graduals per 2, 4 and 8 voci e strumenti
- 137 Antifone per 2 e 4 voci e strumenti
- 152 Offertori per 2, 4 e 8 voci e strumenti
- 162 Salmi per 4, 5 e 8 voci e organo
- 49 hymns per 4 voci
- 20 responsori per 4 e 8 voci e strumenti
- 162 mottetti per 2, 4 e 8 e strumenti
- 5 sequences per 4 voci
- Varie lamentazioni per 8 voci
- Canon in subdiapason per 16 voci (1719 approx.)
- 5 cantatas per soprano e organo
- Vari madrigali per 5 voci
literature
- Salvatore de Salvo: Giorgi, Giovanni. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 55: Ginammi – Giovanni da Crema. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2000.
Web links
- Literature by and about Giovanni Giorgi in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Giovanni Giorgi (composer) in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ^ Salvatore de Salvo: Giorgi, Giovanni. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 55. Rome 2000.
- ↑ http://www.hoasm.org/VIIIF/Giorgi.html
- ↑ MGG , 2nd edition, Vol. 7, p. 993
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Giorgi, Giovanni |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Georgiis, Joannis de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian church composer of the late baroque and pre-classical periods |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1690 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Veneto |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1762 |
| Place of death | Lisbon |