Giuseppe Corsi da Celano

Giuseppe Corsi Vangelisti (1631/32 in Celano after 10 March 1691 in Ancona, or Modena?)[1] better known as Celani, was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. He was mainly active at Rome, where he was Maestro di cappella. He was the teacher of Giacomo Antonio Perti and Petronio Franceschini.

Biography

Student in Rome at the Jesuit fathers under the guidance of Giacomo Carissimi he was active as an outstanding Maestro in Gallese (Altemps family), Città di Castello (Cattedrale di S. Florido), Naples (Montalto family), Rome (Basilica di S. Maria Maggiore, Basilica di S. Giovanni in Laterano, Chiesa di S. Maria Maddalena, Chiesa Nuova), Loreto (Basilica della S. Casa: where he was ordained priest), Ancona (Cattedrale di S. Ciriaco) and Parma (Basilica di S. Maria della Steccata and Farnese family).[1] Accused by the Inquisition for having "deflowered" a spinster,[2] he was tortured and imprisoned in Rome for a few years on the orders of Pope Innocent XI in the Albornoz fortress of Narni.[1]

Works

Works by Giuseppe Corsi da Celano (sigla TriC),[3] cataloged by Giovanni Tribuzio in 2014, are 83:

Bibliography

Biographies

Critical editions

Discography

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Galliano Ciliberti - Giovanni Tribuzio: «Un buon virtuoso, agitato dalla fortuna, dalla quale sortì vari accidenti». Giuseppe Corsi: un maestro marsicano nel Seicento europeo, in Galliano Ciliberti - Giovanni Tribuzio (edited by): «E nostra guida sia la Stravaganza». Giuseppe Corsi da Celano musicista del Seicento, Bari, Florestano Edizioni, 2014, pp. 3-58.
  2. Eleonora Simi Bonini, Alcuni aspetti della vita di Giuseppe Corsi da Celano, in Musica tra storia e filologia. Studi in onore di Lino Bianchi, edited by Federica Nardacci, Rome, Istituto Italiano per la Storia della Musica, 2010, pp. 547-565.
  3. Ufficio Ricerca Fondi Musicali

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