Massimiliano allegri dates joined
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Mozart &
Material Culture
Roman Catholic priest and composer, best known for his Miserere mei, Deus (Have mercy on me, O God), a setting of Psalm 51 (50). Probably composed during the 1630s, it was sung in the Sistine Chapelduring matins as part of the Tenebrae service on Holy Wednesday and Good Friday.
- Mozart Relevance
Mozart heard (and subsequently copied from memory) Allegri's Miserere in Rome on 11 and 12 April 1770.
James Caldwall (engr. Francesco Faraone Aquila), Gregorio Allegri Romano (eighteenth century)
- Category/Role
- Composer
- Date 1
- 1582 (circa), Rome
- Date 2
- 1652-02-17, Rome
- Location
- Rome
- Date (Mozart)
- 1770-04-11 or 12
- Location (Mozart)
- Rome
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Gregorio Allegri
Italian composer
Gregorio Allegri (c. 14 January 1582 – 17 February 1652)[1][2] was an ItalianCatholic priest and composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri; he was also a singer. He was born[3] and died in Rome. He is chiefly known for his Miserere for two choirs.
Life
He studied music as a puer (boy chorister) at San Luigi dei Francesi, under the maestro di cappellaGiovanni Bernardino Nanino, brother of Giovanni Maria Nanino. Being intended for the Church, he obtained a benefice in the cathedral of Fermo. Here he composed a large number of motets and other sacred music, which, being brought to the notice of Pope Urban VIII, obtained for him an appointment in the choir of the Sistine Chapel at Rome as a contralto. He held this from 6 December 1629 until his death. Allegri is said to have been a virtuous man, as well as good-natured and generous to the poor and to prisoners.[4][5]
Among Allegri's musical compositions were two volumes of concerti for f
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Gregorio Allegri
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A member of the same family which produced the painter Correggio, born at Rome c. 1580; died 1652. He was attached to the cathedral at Fermo, as a beneficiary priest, and acted as chorister and composer. The attention of Pope Urban VIII was drawn to him through some of his motets and concerti, and he was appointed, 6 December, 1629, to fill a vacancy among the singers of the Papal Choir, a post which he held until his death. He reached the climax of his fame when he produced his nine-voiced "Miserere" for two choirs, the value of which depends almost entirely upon its execution, in particular upon certain traditional ornaments which give a peculiar, pathetic quality to many passages, but without which it appears to be a piece of almost hopeless insipidity. Allegri's Christian life was in perfect harmony with his artistic occupation; he was, say
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