Virgilio Mazzocchi (22 July 1597 bapt. – 3 October 1646) was an Italian baroque composer.

Biography

He was born in Veja, near

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, where he was baptized, as the younger brother of the more famous composer and learned lawyer

Domenico Mazzocchi Domenico Mazzocchi (baptised 1592 in Civita Castellana21 January 1665 in Veja) was an Italian Baroque composer of only vocal music, of the generation after Claudio Monteverdi. He was a learned Roman lawyer, studied music with Giovanni Maria Nanin ...

. Like his brother, who shared some features of his career, he was largely a composer of sacred vocal music. Mazzocchi is associated with providing music for the papal chapels. He died in Civita Castellana, where he had gone with his singers to celebrate the holy patrons, after a sudden illness.

Works

* ''

Chi soffre, speri ''Chi soffre, speri'' (''Let him who Suffers Hope'') or ''L'Egisto'' is an opera in a prologue and three acts by the Italian composer Virgilio Mazzocchi, performed with an intermedio titled ''La fiera di Farfa'' with music by Marco Marazzoli. I ...

'', in collaboration with Marco Marazzoli -

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(1637); * ''Vespro Della Beata Vergine'',

vespers Vespers is a service of evening prayer, one of the canonical hours in Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Catholic (both Latin and Eastern), Lutheran, and Anglican liturgies. The word for this fixed prayer time comes from the Latin , meanin ...

for the Holy Virgin.

Recordings

Virgilio Mazzocchi, Vespro Della Beata Vergine, Konrad Junghänel (conductor), Concerto Palatino, Cantus Cölln (YouTube).

Sources and References

* Entry under Domenico (and Virgilio) Mazzocchi in the ''Concise Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians'' * Entry under Virgilio Mazzocchi in the '' Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians''. * Cardinali A., 1926, ''Cenni biografici di Domenico e Virgilio Mazzocchi''.

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mazzocchi, Virgilio 1597 births 1646 deaths Italian Baroque composers Italian male classical composers 17th-century Italian composers 17th-century male musicians