Domenico Zipoli
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Domenico Zipoli | |
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| Died | 1726 (aged 37–38) |
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Domenico Zipoli (1688-1726) was an Italian composer from the Baroque period who worked and died in
Reductions of Paraguay where he taught music among the Guaraní people
. He is remembered as the most accomplished musician among Jesuit missionaries.
Early training and career
Zipoli was born in
Society of Jesus), in Rome, a prestigious post. At the very beginning of the following year, he finished his best-known work, a collection of keyboard pieces titled Sonate d'intavolatura per organo e cimbalo.[1]
Jesuit musician-missionary
For reasons that are not clear, Zipoli travelled to
Reductions of Paraguay
in Spanish Colonial America. Still a novice, he left Spain with a group of 53 missionaries who reached Buenos Aires on 13 July 1717.
He completed his formation and sacerdotal studies in
Lima, Peru
. Struck by an unknown infectious disease, Zipoli died in the Jesuit house of Córdoba, on 2 January 1726. A previous theory placing his death in the ancient Jesuit church of Santa Catalina, in the hills of the Province of Córdoba, has now been discredited. His burial place has never been found.
Legacy
Zipoli continues to be well-known today for his keyboard works; many of them are well within the abilities of beginning to intermediate players, and appear in most standard anthologies. His Italian compositions have always been known but in 1972 some of his South American church music was discovered in
Sucre, Bolivia, seems a local compilation based on the other two Masses. His dramatic music, including two complete oratorios and portions of a third one, is mostly gone. Three sections of the 'Mission opera' San Ignacio de Loyola – compiled by Martin Schmid
in Chiquitos many years after Zipoli's death, and preserved almost complete in local sources – have been attributed to Zipoli.
Media
Notes
- ^ Muñoz, Frédéric (4 February 2021). "Marco Brescia joue Zipoli sur l'orgue brésilien de Diamantina". ResMusica (in French). Retrieved 27 February 2021.
References
- Ayestarán, Lauro. Domenico Zipoli, Vida y obra, Montevideo, 1962.
- Franze, Juan Pedro, La obra completa para órgano de Domenico Zipoli, Buenos Aires, 1974.
- Gasta, Chad M. "Opera and Spanish Evangelization in the New World", Gestos 44, 2008, 85–106.
- Illari, Bernardo. Domenico Zipoli: Para una genealogía de la música clásica latinoamericana (Havana: Fondo editorial Casa de las Américas, 2011).
- Militello, Sergio. Il sogno musicale di un Paradiso in Terra. Domenico Zipoli (1688-1726), Presentation by Pope Francis, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 2018, (pp. 254), ISBN 978-88-266-0186-1
External links
- Free scores by Domenico Zipoli at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Free scores by Domenico Zipoli in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
- The Zipoli Institute
- The Association 'Prato for Zipoli'
- Discos Qualiton published the entire works by Domenico Zipoli. Domenico Zipoli. Complete Works for Organ; Misa en fa Mayor para coro, solistas, cuerdas y bajo contínuo, and Complete works for harpsichord.
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