Domenico Zipoli (1688-1726)
- Missa brevis
Performers: Coro de Niños Cantores de Córdoba; Elyma EnsembIe; Gabriel Garrido (dirección)
Painting: Cornelis Saftleven (1607-1681) - A Concert Of Cats, Owls, A Magpie, And A Monkey In A Barn
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Italian organist and composer. He was the sixth child born to Sabatino
Zipoli and Eugenia Varrochi. The Prato Cathedral organist-choirmasters
in his youth were both Florentines: Ottavio Termini (from 1703) and
Giovanni Francesco Beccatelli. On 12 September 1707 he petitioned Cosimo
III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, for six scudi monthly so that he could
study at Florence, where the cathedral organist from 1703 was Giovanni
Maria Casini. On 2 February and 9 March 1708 he cooperated with Casini,
Caldara, Gasparini and 20 others in composing an oratorio produced at
Florence under the supervision of Orlandini by the Compagnia di S Marco,
and later that year at the Oratorians’ church in a version with arias
by Zipoli replacing those of Omodei Sequi. Supported by a further ducal
charity grant, he moved to Naples in 1709 for lessons with Alessandro
Scarlatti but left in the same year after disagreements and went to
study at Bologna under Lavinio Felice Vannucci; he next went from
Bologna to Rome for lessons with the veteran Bernardo Pasquini. Staying
in Rome after Pasquini’s death in 1710, he composed two oratorios of
which only the librettos survive, S Antonio di Padova (1712) and S
Caterina vergine, e martire (1714). In 1715 he was appointed organist of
the Jesuit church at Rome and the next year published the keyboard
collection on which his fame rests, Sonate d’intavolatura. The Princess
of Forano to whom he dedicated the work, Maria Teresa Strozzi, may have
been related to the bishop, Leone Strozzi, who had confirmed him at
Prato Cathedral on 2 May 1699. Throughout his stay in Rome Zipoli lodged
with Filippo Baldocci, prior of S Giovanni dei Fiorentini. Zipoli
joined the Society of Jesus on 1 July 1716, and soon after went to
Seville to await passage to the Paraguay province.
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