Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei (1649-1732) - La Fiera (1691)
Performers: Tölzer Knabenchor; Convivium Musicum München; Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden (leitung)
Further info: Musik am Hofe des Kurfürsten Max Emanuel von Bayern
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Italian composer. Elder son of Ercole Bernabei (1622-1687) and brother
of Vincenzo Bernabei (1660-c.1735). He presumably studied with his
father, and probably replaced him at the organ of S Luigi dei Francesi
from July 1665 to April 1667. He then went to work with him as
vice-Kapellmeister in Munich, a post he assumed on 24 June 1677. After
his father’s death he became Hofkapellmeister there. During the first 15
years of his career at Munich he regularly wrote operas, but the
political situation then cut short this activity. When the production of
opera was resumed Pietro Torri became the principal composer, Bernabei –
who was a priest – restricting his output to sacred music. A large
number of his sacred works are listed in the 1753 catalogue of the
Munich Hofkapelle together with 30 sinfonias and three ‘Sinfonie, e
Pastorel’.
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