Mario Capuana (1576 in

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– 4 May 1647 in

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) was an Italian composer of motets and a requiem. He was ''maestro di capella'' at the Cathedral of

in the Province of Syracuse from 1628 to his death in 1647. In the years before and immediately after his death were published a small flurry of works in Venice.

Editions

*''Messa da requiem a 4'' (Venice, posthumous 1650) – edited with Requiem (1653) of Bonaventura Rubino. 1999. A copy is preserved in the Archive of the

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, complete with needlessly disparaging comments in the handwriting of

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. *''Sacro Armonie a tre voci con Basso Continuo por sonar il Clavicembalo ò altro Stromento di Mario Capuana Maestro di Capella.''Catalogo della Biblioteca del Liceo musicale de Bologna. *''Mario Capuana Motetti concertati a due, tre, quattro e cinque voci'' (1649) edition 1998. – This is one of the series of Renaissance Sicilian composers including

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, Pietro Vinci, Antonio Il Verso, Antonio Formica, Tommaso Giglio, Anselmo Fazio, Giovan Pietro Flaccomio, Erasmo Marotta,

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, Cataldo Amodei, Bartolomeo Montalbano, Bonaventura Rubino, and Vincenzo Gallo.

Recordings

*''Parce mihi, Domine.'' on ''Fabellae Sacrae'' by Savadi. Pan 2008. *''Messa di defonti a quattro voci (1650).'' on REQUIEM – Mario Capuana – Bonaventura Rubino – Choeur de Chambre de Namur – conduct. Leonardo García Alarcón. Ricercar- 2014 (RIC 353)

References

Italian Baroque composers 1600s births 1640s deaths Composers from Sicily Year of birth uncertain Italian male classical composers 17th-century Italian composers 17th-century Italian male musicians {{Italy-composer-stub