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, Naples in Naples. He was first organist for the church of
Santi Severino e Sossio
The church of Santi Severino e Sossio and the annexed monastery are located on via Bartolommeo Capasso in Naples, Italy.
The church is attached to one of the oldest monasteries in the city, and from 1835 it has housed the State Archives of Naple ...
, then ''maestro di cappella'' at
San Lorenzo Maggiore (Naples). From 1662 to 1673 he taught at the
Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini, then moved to be ''maestro di cappella'' of the
Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo. He died in
Naples
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.
Works
* Requiem - Missa defunctorum
* Mass and vespers
* Messa della Domenica
* Magnificat 5 voices and two violins
Polychoral motets:
* Audite coeli for 4 choirs
* Song of the three boys - Canticum trium puerorum, for 4 choirs 1657
* Confitebor for 2 choirs
* Credidi for 4 choirs
* Keyboard works
* Canzoni for Four Viols
[Giovanni Salvatore Due Canzoni for Four Viols 1989 32 pages]
* Secular arias
Recordings
* Salvatore: Messa della Domenica. Ricercari a quattro voci. Toccate. Canzoni francesi. Fabio Bonizzoni. Schola Stirps Jesse Glossa 921501
* Magnificat a 5 voci con violini.
Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini dir. Florio Symphonia.
References
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Italian Baroque composers
1620s births
1688 deaths
People from the Province of Benevento
Italian male classical composers
17th-century Italian composers
17th-century male musicians