Francesco Rossi ( ?

Bari Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy a ...

1625 – ? after 1699) was an Italian

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and Maestro di Cappella.

Life

Rossi was born in

in 1625. He is recorded as student in the Conservatorio di Sant'Onofrio a Porta Capuana in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

. In 1669 he is Maestro di Cappella in the same institute, position held till 1672, and organist at

's Cathedral. He became a canon of Bari Cathedral and on 16 January 1677 was appointed Maestro di cappella. From 1681 he shared the position with his rival Alonzo Ramirez. He moved to Venice in 1686 where he was known as 'abate pugliese'. In Venice he wrote operas for the

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and published his Salmi et messa a cinque voci op.1 (

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, 1688). On 22 July 1689 he was appointed maestro di cappella of the Venetian Ospedale dei Mendicanti. He retired on 8 January 1699.

Compositions

Operas

* La Caduta dell’ultimo Visire (Venice, 1686) * La Corilda (Venice, 1688) * La Floridea (Venice, 1688) * La Pena degli Occhi (Venice, 1688)

Sacred works

* San Filippo Neri (Oratorio) * La Caduta degli Angeli (Oratorio) * Salmi et messa a cinque voci op.1 (Venice, 1688)

Sources

*Jolando Scarpa (ed.): Arte e musica all'Ospedaletto. Schede d'archivio sull'attività musicale degli Ospedali dei Derelitti e dei Mendicanti di Venezia (sec. XVI–XVIII). * Lorenzo Bianconi & Jennifer Williams Brown: Rossi, Francesco in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

External links

* 1625 births Italian male classical composers 17th-century Italian composers Italian musicologists Culture in Venice 17th-century male musicians {{musicologist-stub