Carlo Francesco Cesarini

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Carlo Francesco Cesarini, (c.1666 – after 2 September 1741) was an Italian composer born in

maestro di cappella in the Chiesa del Gesù from 1704 until 31 August 1741. He composed numerous oratorios and cantatas and was the joint composer of several operas. The opera Clearco in Negroponte which he composed with Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier and Tommaso Bernardo Gaffi inaugurated the public opening of the Teatro Capranica
on 18 January 1695.
He also set to music many oratorios on
Benedetto Pamphilj
's texts: San Vincislao (1704), Il figliol prodigo (1707), Oratorio per l'Assunzione della beatissima Vergine (1713), e Il trionfo del Tempo nella Bellezza ravveduta (1725).
The last known records of him date from early September 1741 and document his retirement as the maestro di cappella of the Chiesa del Gesù due to ill health.

Some cantatas of him were recently published in modern edition.[1]

Bibliography

  • Alexandra Nigito, "Le conversazioni in musica: Carlo Francesco Cesarini, virtuoso di Sua Eccellenza Padrone", in The Pamphilj and the Arts: Patronage and Consumption in Baroque Rome, ed. by Stephanie C. Leone, Boston, 2011, pp. 161–188.

References

  1. ^ Carlo Francesco Cesarini, Le cantate da camera del ms. 2248 della Biblioteca Casanatense di Roma, ed. by Giacomo Sciommeri, Rome 2014. Carlo Francesco Cesarini, Due cantate con strumenti, ed. by Giacomo Sciommeri, Rome, 2017.

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