Giuseppe Caruso () was an Italian

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and

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of the

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Scholarship

Little is known about Giuseppe Caruso. In 1634 he was working for Don Antonio Statella e Caruso, a Sicilian Officer of State who held the title of Great Seneschal and was also a member of the Sicilian nobility with the title Marquis of

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. He was an organist and composer in the marquis's employ. His only surviving work from which these details come, the six part choral work ''Sacre lodi del SS.mo sacramento concertate, op.2'', was published in Naples in 1634. This manuscript indicates that an earlier anthology of madrigals by Caruso was previously published, but this has not survived. Nothing else is known about this composer.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Caruso, Giuseppe Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown 17th-century Italian composers Italian Baroque composers Italian male classical composers Italian organists Musicians from Sicily