Giovanni Battista Borghi (1738-1796)
- Letanie a 8 concertato
Performers: Judit Janzen (soprano); Regine Röttger (alto); Rainer van Husen (1944-2012, tenor); Michael Flöth (bass);
Der Domchor Münster; Santini Kammerorchester; Heinz-Gert Freimuth (1939-2009, conductor)
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Italian composer and organist. He received his earliest training under
Girolamo Abos at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples
beginning in 1757. By 1759 he was appointed as maestro di cappella at
Orvieto Cathedral, during which time he also traveled throughout Italy
and may have gone as far afield as Vienna. In 1778 he took over the
maestro di cappella post at the Santa Causa Church in Loreto, in a post
he held the rest of his life. As a composer, he was best known for his
operas written in a mid-century Neapolitan style. His output include 24
operas (split evenly between buffa and seria), 20 oratorios, 11 Masses,
35 introits, 27 graduals, 67 offertories, 14 Psalms, 25 Marian
antiphons, six litanies, a violin concerto, and six violin duets.
Despite some sources often confuse him with the violinist Luigi Borghi
and the harpsichordist Giovanni Borghi, he was not related with them.
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