Francesco Mancini (1672-1737)
- Concerto (sol minore) di Flauto, Violini, Violetta e Basso (1725)
Performers: Jean-Pierre Boullet (recorder); Ensemble Baroque Le Rondeau
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Italian organist and composer. He entered the Conservatorio di S Maria
della Pietà dei Turchini in 1688 as a student of organ, where he studied
with Provenzale and Ursino; after six years he was employed as an
organist. At the beginning of the 18th century he entered the service of
the viceroy and in 1704 became the principal organist of the royal
chapel. He was appointed maestro di cappella there in 1708 but by
December of that year the post was returned to Alessandro Scarlatti and
Mancini became his deputy (in 1718 he obtained a guarantee that he would
succeed Scarlatti). In 1720 he became Director of the Conservatorio di S
Maria di Loreto, and so played an important part in the training of a
new generation of composers. Mancini succeeded Scarlatti in 1725,
remaining in the post until his death. In 1735, however, he suffered a
stroke and remained semi-paralysed until his death two years later.
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