Erasmo Bartoli Filippino, or Erasmo di Bartolo, called padre Raimo (1606–1656), was an Italian priest, composer, and teacher at the conservatories in Naples.
[Music in seventeenth-century Naples: Francesco Provenzale (1624–1704) Dinko Fabris - 2007 ".... is Erasmo Di Bartolo (Gaeta, 1606 - Naples, 1656), called 'Padre Raimo' ...Gelormini della congregazione dell'Oratorio di San Filippo Neri, dov'erano le Quarant'ore con musica a quattro chori. Invenzione che fu del padre Raimo Bartolo da Gaeta, che mori di peste nel 1656, e fu cantato il muttetto a 4 Chori O ... The composition was by Father Raimo Bartolo da Gaeta, who died of the plague in 1656, and the motet for four choirs O sacrum convivium was sung. Do not make fun of this information, Reader, for he was a priest who led a saintly life and "]
Bartolo was born in
Gaeta
Gaeta (; ; Southern Latian dialect, Southern Laziale: ''Gaieta'') is a seaside resort in the province of Latina in Lazio, Italy. Set on a promontory stretching towards the Gulf of Gaeta, it is from Rome and from Naples.
The city has played ...
. His students included
Giovanni Salvatore
Giovanni Salvatore (c.1620 – c.1688) was a Neapolitan composer and organist.
Salvatore was born in Castelvenere. He is thought to have studied under Giovanni Maria Sabino and Erasmo di Bartolo at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini, N ...
. He died in the
Naples plague of 1656.
Works, editions and recordings
*''Quarant'ore con musica a quattro chori.''
:Recordings:
*psalm on ''Vespro Solenne (Napoli 1632)''. with works by
G. M. Sabino,
Majello. (Symphonia 91S04) 1993
References
1656 deaths
1606 births
People from Gaeta
17th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests
17th-century deaths from plague (disease)
17th-century Italian composers
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