Hannibal orgas

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Hannibal (Annibal) Orgas (* around 1575 in Ancona ? † July 5, 1629 in Cracow ) was an Italian conductor and composer .

Life

After studying in Rome with Asprilio Pacelli at the Collegium Germanicum, he was first conductor there for a few years (1610 to 1616). From 1622 he worked in Krakow as cathedral music director.

Little is known of his supposedly extensive work. In addition to two four-part motets, there are only 22 polyphonic vocal works.

literature

  • Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea World of Music - The Composers - A lexicon in five volumes . tape 4 . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07830-7 , pp. 206 .
personal data
SURNAME Orgas, Hannibal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orgasm, annibal; Orgas, Annibale
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1575
PLACE OF BIRTH unsure: Ancona
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1629
Place of death Krakow