Francesco Maria Marini () was an Italian composer of early
Baroque music. Associated with the
music of San Marino
San Marino is a small sovereign state located within the territory of Italy. It has a musical heritage which includes the 17th-century composer Francesco Maria Marini and the 20th-century composer Cesare Franchini Tassini (1925–2010).
Since 189 ...
, only a single work of his survives, the 1637 collection ''Concerti spirituali concertati a 2–7 et con instrumenti, libro 1''.
Life and career
There is little known of Francesco Maria Marini; he lived around 1637. The
frontispiece of his surviving music indicates that he was born in
Pesaro
Pesaro () is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Marche, capital of the Province of Pesaro e Urbino, on the Adriatic Sea. According to the 2011 census, its population was 95,011, making it the second most populous city in the March ...
.
He is known to have been music director for the republic
San Marino
San Marino (, ), officially the Republic of San Marino ( it, Repubblica di San Marino; ), also known as the Most Serene Republic of San Marino ( it, Serenissima Repubblica di San Marino, links=no), is the fifth-smallest country in the world an ...
's most important church.
Music
Although only a single set of his compositions survive, the British musicologist
Jerome Roche
Jerome Lawrence Alexander Roche (22 May 1942 – 2 June 1994) was a British musicologist, with a particular interest in Italian church music of the baroque era.
Early life and education
Roche was born in 1942 in Cairo, Egypt, the son of an army ...
remarks "That so few works survive is a matter for regret, since they show a surprisingly competent talent for a comparative outpost such as San Marino, geographically far removed from the centres of composition in the 1630s".
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Italian Baroque composers
Sammarinese male musicians
Italian male classical composers
17th-century Italian composers
17th-century male musicians