Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier, nicknamed Giovannino del Violone (''Little John of the Violone'') (c. 1662 – 29 March 1700) was a

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

Italian composer, cellist and trombone player of Spanish descent.

Life

Lulier was born and died in

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. He was a student of Pietro Simone Agostini, a composer and violin virtuoso in the service of

Pietro Ottoboni Pope Alexander VIII ( it, Alessandro VIII; 22 April 1610 – 1 February 1691), born Pietro Vito Ottoboni, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 October 1689 to his death in February 1691. He is to date the las ...

. From 1676 to 1699 Lulier played regularly in the Roman church of

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; on 13 October 1679 he entered the ''Congregazione di Santa Cecilia''. From 1681 he was active in the service of

Benedetto Pamphili Benedetto Pamphili (often with the final ''long i'' orthography, Pamphilj) (25 April 1653 – 22 March 1730) was an Italian cardinal, patron of the arts and librettist for many composers. Life Pamphili was born in Rome on 25 April 1653 int ...

and from 1688 he played the trombone in the ''Musici del Campidoglio''. When Pamphili left Rome in 1690, Lulier again became the protégé of cardinal Ottoboni and remained so for the rest of his life. In the 1690s he also worked for the

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family, and probably played the

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

in the orchestra in which another Pamphili protégé,

Arcangelo Corelli Arcangelo Corelli (, also , , ; 17 February 1653 – 8 January 1713) was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era. His music was key in the development of the modern genres of sonata and concerto, in establishing the preeminence of ...

, was principal violinist. Some works for cello by Lulier have survived, and also a number of vocal works with concertate cello parts. His compositions include cantatas and a number of oratorios.Sadie, JA, p 65

Footnotes

References

* Julie Anne Sadie, ''Companion to Baroque Music'', University of California Press, 1998. . * George J Buelow, ''A History of Baroque Music'', Indiana University Press, 2004. . 1660s births 1700 deaths Italian Roman Catholics Italian classical cellists Italian male classical composers Italian classical trombonists Italian Baroque composers 17th-century Italian composers 17th-century male musicians {{Trombonist-stub