Giacomo Carissimi

Aliases: Jacomo

Life

Born: baptized 18 April 1605, Marino

Died: 12 January 1674, Rome

Biography A crucial figure in the history of the oratorio, Carissimi enjoyed a grand reputation among his contemporaries and taught among others Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Johann Caspar Kerll and Christoph Bernhard. From around 1628 till his death he was associated with Rome's Collegio Germanico, whose library's dispersal has made authentication of a huge number of attributed works in mss. problematic.

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List of choral works

• Ave verum corpus
• Chi d'Amor vive in tormento
• Il Ciarlatano
• Dives malus
• Dixit Dominus
• Hic, haec, hoc
• Historia di Jephte
• Historia Ionæ
• Iudicium extremum
• Messa a tre voci
• Missa L'homme armé a 12
• O beatum virum
• O felix anima
• Veni Sponsa Christi
• Vittoria mio core

 
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Publications

• Missa a quinque et a novem cum selectis quibusdam cantionibus (Cologne, 1666)
• Arion Romanus sive Liber primus sacrarum cantionum, 1–5vv (Konstanz, 1670)
• Sacri concerti musicali, 2–5vv (Rome, 1675)

External links

• Works by Giacomo Carissimi in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)