Erasmo Bartoli Filippino, or Erasmo di Bartolo, called padre Raimo (1606–1656), was an Italian priest, composer, and teacher at the conservatories in Naples.
[Music in seventeenth-century Naples: Francesco Provenzale (1624–1704) ]Dinko Fabris
Dinko Fabris is an Italian musicologist. He specializes in lute music, the music of Naples, and Italian music in general, having written books on Italian composers such as Andrea Falconieri, Andrea Gabrieli, Francesco Provenzale and Francesco Ca ...
- 2007 ".... is Erasmo Di Bartolo (Gaeta, 1606 - Naples, 1656), called 'Padre Raimo' ...Gelormini della congregazione dell'Oratorio di San Filippo Neri, dov'erano le Quarant'ore con musica a quattro chori. Invenzione che fu del padre Raimo Bartolo da Gaeta, che mori di peste nel 1656, e fu cantato il muttetto a 4 Chori O ... The composition was by Father Raimo Bartolo da Gaeta, who died of the plague in 1656, and the motet for four choirs O sacrum convivium was sung. Do not make fun of this information, Reader, for he was a priest who led a saintly life and "
Bartolo was born in
Gaeta
Gaeta (; lat, Cāiēta; Southern Laziale: ''Gaieta'') is a city in the province of Latina, in Lazio, Southern Italy. Set on a promontory stretching towards the Gulf of Gaeta, it is from Rome and from Naples.
The town has played a consp ...
. His students included
Giovanni Salvatore
Giovanni Salvatore (ca.1620ca.1688) was a Neapolitan composer and organist.
Salvatore was born in Castelvenere. He is thought to have studied under Giovanni Maria Sabino and Erasmo di Bartolo at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini, Nap ...
. He died in the
Naples plague of 1656.
Works, editions and recordings
*''Quarant'ore con musica a quattro chori.''
:Recordings:
*psalm on ''Vespro Solenne (Napoli 1632)''. with works by
G. M. Sabino,
Majello. (Symphonia 91S04) 1993
References
1656 deaths
1606 births
People from Gaeta
17th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests
17th-century deaths from plague (disease)
17th-century Italian composers
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