Giovanni Battista Costanzi (1704-1778)
- Dixit Dominus
Performers: Harmonia Sacra; Peter Leech (conductor)
Further info: Princely Splendour - Choral Works From 18th Century Rome
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Italian composer, teacher, cellist and organist. A student of Giovanni
Lulier, he entered the service of Cardinal Ottoboni in 1721. After the
brilliant success of his opera 'Carlo Magno' in 1729, he was appointed
to a number of the most important posts of maestro di cappella in Rome:
at San Luigi dei Francesi in 1729, at San Lorenzo in Damaso in 1731, at
San Marco and Santa Maria in Vallicella in 1743, and at San Pietro
(Cappella Giulia) in 1755. As a teacher, his most famous student was
Luigi Boccherini. As a composer, his own music has been little studied
but includes 17 operas, four cantatas, and a large amount of sacred
music as well as few instrumental works, among them, cello concertos and
sonatas, and five symphonies. Giovanni Battista Costanzi was among the
most prolific composers of the 18th century but only a part of his
output has survived. According to André Ernest Modeste Grétry he was one
of the best-loved church composers in Rome.
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