Asprilio Pacelli (or Pecelli) (1570 – 4 May 1623) was an
Italian Baroque composer. He was born in Vasciano near
Narni in
Stroncone
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Province of Terni
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Umbria
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, Italy; and died in
Warsaw
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.
Life
He was a boy chorister at
Cappella Giulia under
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( – 2 February 1594) was an Italian composer of late Renaissance music. The central representative of the Roman School, with Orlande de Lassus and Tomás Luis de Victoria, Palestrina is considered the leading ...
. He served at two Roman churches:
Santa Maria in Monserrato and
Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini. ''Maestro di cappella'' of the
Collegio Germanico
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(from 1595), he held the same position at
S Pietro from 1602, but he left the post to
Francesco Soriano from 1 January 1603; in the same year Pacelli became ''Maestro di cappella'' of
King Sigismund III of Poland, who had one of the most important royal chapels in Europe. He remained at that position until his death. In appreciation, the King ordered an epitaph commemorating Pacelli to be constructed in the
St. John's Cathedral in Warsaw. The original epitaph with the composer's portrait was destroyed when the Cathedral was also destroyed during the
Planned destruction of Warsaw
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;
it was nonetheless reconstructed after the war.
References
Bibliography
* Mirosław Perz, ''Asprilio Pacelli'', in «New Grove Dictionary»;
* Cristina Santarelli, ''Asprilio Pacelli'', in «Dizionario Enciclopedico Universale della Musica e dei Musicisti», Torino, 1985;
* Alberto Cametti, ''Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina'', Ed. Ricordi, 1894.
External links
Glinski: ‘Asprilio Pacelli e i suoi madrigali’: Opera omnia, Rome, 1947*
1570 births
1623 deaths
Italian Baroque composers
Italian male classical composers
17th-century Italian composers
17th-century male musicians
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