Pietro Paolo Bencini (c. 1670 – 6 July 1755) was an Italian

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and

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. He was the father of Antonio Bencini (died 13 March 1748), who was also known as a composer of sacred works.

Life

Bencini was born into a musical family. He became ''maestro di cappella'' at several churches in Rome. His compositional output consists mostly of religious music, including several oratorios and cantatas. He was maestro di cappella at the Chiesa Nuova (The Roman Oratory) from 1705 to 1743. He left there to succeed

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(1657-1743) as maestro di cappella of the Cappella Giulia at

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in Rome. Within the years of 1749 until 1753 he was supported by Niccolo Jomelli, because Bencini became more and more unable to work because of illness. During this time Jomelli, who was better known as a composer of operas, created the most of his sacral compositions. In 1753 Jomelli left Rome in order to succeed Ignaz Holzbauer in Stuttgart. On his death Bencini was succeeded by Giovanni Battista Costanzi (1704-1778).

Selected works

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. Some of his oratories and additional spiritual music as following:https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/pietro-paolo-bencini_(Dizionario-Biografico), Raoul Meloncelli - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 8 (1966), ''BENCINI, Pietro Paolo'', Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani * ''Susanna a propheta Daniele vindicata'' (Giovanni Antonio Magnani, 1698) * ''L' innocenza protetta'' (Giacomo Buonaccorsi, 1700) * ''De inopia copia'' (Filippo Capistrelli, 1703) * ''Salomon'' (Francesco Posterla, 1704) * ''Introduzione all'oratorio della passione di nostro signore Gesù Cristo'' (

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, 1707 e 1708) * ''S. Andrea Corsini'' (Giacomo Buonaccorsi, 1722) * ''Ad sacrum drama de passione Domini nostri Jesu Christi introductio'' (1725) * ''Il sacrificio di Abramo'' (oratorio, libretto by Giacomo Buonaccorsi, 1708) * ''Tra l'ombre piu romite'' (cantata) * ''Rimembranza crudele'' (cantata) * ''Clori che m'invaghi'' (cantata) * ''Jesu redemptor omnium'' (Christmas hymn)

External links

Raoul Meloncelli, ''Bencini, Pietro Paolo'', in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
vol. 8, Roma, 1966
''Musiciens de Rome de 1570 à 1750''
informations recueillies par Jean Lionnet, réunies et publiées par Livia Lionnet * https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.dnb.de%2Fopac.htm%3Fmethod%3DsimpleSearch%26query%3D103819088#, Archive of DNB (Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bencini, Pietro Paolo 1670s births 1755 deaths Year of birth uncertain Musicians from Rome Italian male classical composers Italian Baroque composers Sacred music composers 18th-century Italian composers 18th-century Italian male musicians

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