Giuseppe Corsi Evangelisti (Vangelisti) (1631/1632 in County of Celano – after 10 March 1691 in

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or Modena)Galliano Ciliberti - Giovanni Tribuzio: ''«Un buon virtuoso, agitato dalla fortuna, dalla quale sortì vari accidenti». Giuseppe Corsi: un maestro marsicano nel Seicento europeo'', in Galliano Ciliberti - Giovanni Tribuzio (edited by): ''«E nostra guida sia la Stravaganza». Giuseppe Corsi da Celano musicista del Seicento'', Bari, Florestano Edizioni, 2014, pp. 3-58. better known as Gioseppe Corso Celani or Giuseppe Corsi da Celano, was an

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composer of the Baroque era. He was mainly active at

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, where he was ''

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''. He was the teacher of

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and Petronio Franceschini.

Biography

A student in

at the Jesuit fathers under the guidance of Giacomo Carissimi, he was active as an outstanding Maestro in

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(Altemps family),

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(Cattedrale di S. Florido),

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(Montalto family), Rome (Basilica di S. Maria Maggiore, Basilica di S. Giovanni in Laterano, Chiesa di S. Maria Maddalena, Chiesa Nuova), Loreto (Basilica della S. Casa: where he was ordained priest),

(Cattedrale di S. Ciriaco) and

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(Basilica di S. Maria della Steccata and Farnese family). Accused by the Inquisition for having "deflowered" a spinster, he was tortured and imprisoned in Rome for a few years on the orders of Pope

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in the Albornoz fortress of

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Works

Works by Giuseppe Corsi da Celano (sigla TriCo),Ufficio Ricerca Fondi Musicali
/ref> cataloged by Giovanni Tribuzio in 2014, are 83: * TriCo 1-3 (Masses); * TriCo 4-12 (Parts of mass); * TriCo 13 (Canticles); * TriCo 14-20 (Psalms); * TriCo 21-23 (Antiphons); * TriCo 24 (Hymns); * TriCo 25-26a-aj (Responsories); * TriCo 27 (Litanies); * TriCo 28-40 (Motets); * TriCo 41-44 (Oratorios); * TriCo 45-46 (Oratorio cantatas); * TriCo 47-68 (Arias and cantatas for a voice and basso continuo); * TriCo 69 (Cantatas for two voices and basso continuo); * TriCo 70 (Cantatas for three voices and basso continuo); * TriCo 71-83 (Attributed and spurious works).

Bibliography

Biographies

* Raoul Meloncelli, ''Corsi (Corso), Giuseppe (detto anche Corso da Celano, il Celano, Celani)'', in ''

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'', vol. XXIX, 1983
online
. * Beatrice Barazzoni, ''Un esempio di cappella di corte. la cappella musicale dei duchi Farnese a Parma e l’opera dimenticata di Giuseppe Corsi'', in ''Barocco Padano 1'', edited by Alberto Colzani, Andrea Luppi and Maurizio Padoan, Como, Antiquae Musicae Italicae Studiosi, 2002, pp. 381–406. * Eleonora Simi Bonini, ''Alcuni aspetti della vita di Giuseppe Corsi da Celano'', in ''Musica tra storia e filologia. Studi in onore di Lino Bianchi'', edited by Federica Nardacci, Rome, Istituto Italiano per la Storia della Musica, 2010, pp. 547–565. * Galliano Ciliberti, Giovanni Tribuzio (edited by), ''«E nostra guida sia la Stravaganza». Giuseppe Corsi da Celano musicista del Seicento'', Bari, Florestano Edizioni, 2014, pp. 290.

Critical editions

* Giuseppe Corsi da Celano, ''La Stravaganza. Cantata per soprano e basso continuo'', edited by Davide Gualtieri,

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, Libreria Musicale Italiana, 2012. It's an attempt of a critical edition, however, it ignores the sources of Lyon (attributed to Carlo Ambrogio Lonati, identified by Gloria Rose and Stephen R. Miller), Paris ( basso continuo, identified by

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), Brussels (anonymous, identified by Giovanni Tribuzio) and Cambridge (identified by Berthold Over and considered the oldest).

Discography

* Giuseppe Corsi: ''Mottetti - Cantate'', Christophe Carré (

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), Ensemble Labirinto Armonico, Baryton, 2012. *Giuseppe Corsi: ''Bass Cantatas'', Mauro Borgioni (baritone), Romabarocca Ensemble, Brilliant Classics, 2022.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Celano, Giuseppe Corsi da 1630s births 1691 deaths Year of birth uncertain 17th-century Italian composers Italian Baroque composers 17th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests Italian male classical composers Oratorio composers People from the Province of L'Aquila 17th-century male musicians