Giovanni Lorenzo Mariani (1722-1793) - Messa per l'incoronazione de Michelangelo Cambiaso (1792)

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Composer: Giovanni Lorenzo Mariani (1722-1793)
Work: Messa per l'incoronazione de Michelangelo Cambiaso (1792)
Performers: Andrea Porta (bass); Bruno Pestarino (bass); Kwon Soo Jung (soprano);
Francesco Segnini (tenor); Eva Randazzo (soprano); Giovanni Belloi (tenor);
Sabina Cacioppo (contralto); Vera Marenco (contralto);
Coro del Conservatorio Niccolò Paganini; Orchestra Niccolò Paganini; Angelo Guaragna (direttore)

Engraving: Remondini collection - Gezicht op het Piazza Banchi te Genua
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Giovanni Lorenzo Mariani
(Lucca, bap. 17 October 1722 - Genoa, 20 March 1793)

Italian composer. He studied with Padre Martini in Bologna (1746-1753) and became a member of the local Accademia Filarmonica in 1751. In December 1753 he started working for Franceso Maria della Rovere as maestro di cappella of Savona Cathedral. Unsatisfied with his position, in 1779 he applied for the post of maestro di cappella of Milan Cathedral, a position awarded to Giuseppe Sarti after a controversial competition. He remained at Savona until 1792, then moved to Genoa, where he died the following year. Erudite and also talented in poetry, he was admitted to the Colonia degli Arcadi Sabazi of Savona in 1754 under the name ‘Mirtindo Acrejo’. Apart from composing cantatas for the annual Arcadian accademie (now lost), he wrote almost exclusively sacred music, especially for eight voices. His extant works (mostly preserved in I-Bc, Rsc, SAa, Md, Baf and the Archivio Chiesa N.S. del Rimedio, Genoa) include liturgical pieces, motets and masses (one a coronation Mass for doge M.A. Cambiaso, ed. G.E. Cortese, Genoa, 1997). Mariani corresponded with Padre Martini (letters in I-Bc, Bsf) and Giovenale Sacchi, and his pupils included Luigi Lamberti and Francesco Gnecco. #ClassicalMusic