Virgilio Mazzocchi (22 July 1597 bapt. – 3 October 1646) was an Italian

baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

composer.

Biography

He was born in Veja, near

Civita Castellana Civita Castellana is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Viterbo, north of Rome. Mount Soracte lies about to the south-east. History Civita Castellana was settled during the Iron Age by the Italic Falisci, who called it " Falerii". Afte ...

, where he was baptized, as the younger brother of the more famous composer and learned lawyer

Domenico Mazzocchi Domenico Mazzocchi (baptised 1592 in Civita Castellana21 January 1665 in Veja) was an Italian Baroque composer of only vocal music, of the generation after Claudio Monteverdi. He was a learned Roman lawyer, studied music with Giovanni Maria Nanino ...

. Like his brother, who shared some features of his career, he was largely a composer of sacred vocal music. Mazzocchi is associated with providing music for the papal chapels. He died in Civita Castellana, where he had gone with his singers to celebrate the holy patrons, after a sudden illness.

Works

* ''

Chi soffre, speri ''L'Egisto, ovvero Chi soffre speri'' ('Egisto, or Who suffers may hope') is a 1637 in music, 1637 ''commedia musicale'', a type of early Italian comic opera, in a prologue and three acts with music by Virgilio Mazzocchi (and, in its 1639 in mus ...

'', in collaboration with

Marco Marazzoli Marco Marazzoli (1602? – 26 January 1662) was an Italian priest and Baroque music composer. Early life Born at Parma, Marazzoli received early training as a priest, and was ordained around 1625. He moved to Rome in 1626, and entered the se ...

Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...

(1637); * ''Vespro Della Beata Vergine'',

vespers Vespers /ˈvɛspərz/ () is a Christian liturgy, liturgy of evening prayer, one of the canonical hours in Catholic (both Latin liturgical rites, Latin and Eastern Catholic liturgy, Eastern Catholic liturgical rites), Eastern Orthodox, Oriental O ...

for the Holy Virgin.

Recordings

Virgilio Mazzocchi, Vespro Della Beata Vergine, Konrad Junghänel (conductor), Concerto Palatino, Cantus Cölln (YouTube).

Sources and References

* Entry under Domenico (and Virgilio) Mazzocchi in the ''Concise Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians'' * Entry under Virgilio Mazzocchi in the ''

Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language '' Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and th ...

''. * Cardinali A., 1926, ''Cenni biografici di Domenico e Virgilio Mazzocchi''.

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mazzocchi, Virgilio 1597 births 1646 deaths Italian Baroque composers Italian male classical composers 17th-century Italian composers 17th-century Italian male musicians