Carissimi, Giacomo C Composers Composition

Carissimi, Giacomo C Composers Composition

Carissimi, Giacomo

Italian early Baroque composer Giacomo Carissimi (1604/5-1674) was an ordained priest. He was choirmaster at Assisi and later was appointed to a like position at the church of St. Apollinaris in Rome. He spent much of his life as director of music at the Jesuit's German College in Rome. He advanced the development of the oratorio before the form reached its peak under Händel and Bach. Carissimi's output was almost exclusively religious. He also trained a number of other composers, among them Charpentier.

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See Also:

- CD review including details of his life and compositional career from the Classical Reviews of August 2001 on MusicWeb.
- Short biographical essay, partial discography and works list, and CD purchasing from iclassics.com.
- Early music ensemble of vocalists and musicians named for the composer and originally dedicated to researching and recording his music. Includes comments about the composer and his works, discography, and photographs.
- Musical biography summarizes his major sacred and secular works and laments the loss of his autographs upon the dissolution of the Jesuit order. Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
- Music files offered in MIDI format.

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