SKU: BA.BVK02137
Five Centuries of
Sacred Muisc in San
Pietro. Composed by
Giancarlo Rostirolla.
Hardback. Volume I + II.
Book. Baerenreiter Verlag
#BVK02137_00. Published
by Baerenreiter Verlag
(BA.BVK02137).
ISBN
9783761821374. 24.5 x
17.5 cm inches. Text
Language:
Italian.
One of the
major institutions of
sacred music, the
Cappella Giulia at St.
Peter's Basilica, can
look back on a
five-hundred-year
history. Now Giancarlo
Rostirolla brings this
turbulent and
spellbinding history to
life using original
documents from the Papal
Library and the chapter
archives of Saint Peter
in the
Vatican.
The
Cappella Giulia was
founded by Pope Julius II
in 1513. Its chapel
masters were the most
important representatives
of Roman vocal polyphony,
above all Giovanni
Animuccia and Giovanni
Pierluigi da Palestrina,
Francesco Soriano,
Virgilio Mazzocchi,
Orazio Benevoli, Paolo
Lorenzani and Pietro
Bencini. Also employed
there were such opera
composers as Domenico
Scarlatti, Niccolò
Jommelli and Nicola
Zingarelli, the
proponents of Italian
Cecilianism up to Armando
Renzi, and such renowned
organists as Girolamo
Frescobaldi.
In
this documentary history,
as comprehensive as it is
exciting to read,
Giancarlo Rostirolla pays
tribute to the Cappella
Giulia as a musical
institution of
extraordinary historical
importance and the
vehicle for half a
millennium of sacred
music. For decades the
author, an
internationally acclaimed
authority on Rome's
musical traditions, has
immersed himself like few
others in the church and
chapel archives,
libraries and music
collections of the
Eternal
City.
– For
the first time these two
volumes explore the
history of the Cappella
Giulia with information
on all the musicians
known to have worked
there, together with
their biographies, lists
of compositions and
documents on the chapel's
history.
