Giuseppe Geremia (1732-1814)
- Missa pro defunctis (1809)
Performers: Katia Ricciarelli (soprano); Salvatore Fisichella (tenor); Furio Zanasi (baritone); Francesca Aparo (alto);
Camerata Polifonica Siciliana; Douglas Bostock (conductor)
Further info: Missa Pro Defunctis : Tantum Ergo
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Italian composer. He studied in Naples at the Conservatorio di Santa
Maria di Loreto, where he was a pupil of Francesco Durante. His first
work, an oratorio entitled The Flight into Egypt or Jesus Stolen into
Egypt, dates from this Neapolitan period. Together with Nicola
Logroscino and Giacomo Insanguine he composed the music for the comic
opera L'innamorato balordo (1763). In 1773 he became maestro di cappella
in Catania at both the cathedral and the Benedictine abbey of San
Nicolò l'Arena. He later left the cathedral post to his pupil Giacinto
Castorina in 1800 but retained the abbey position at least until 1807.
Geremia's surviving works include about 100 sacred compositions held in
manuscript mostly in Catania. Among these are the dialogo teatrale La
città d'Abella liberata of 1780, 12 other oratorios including Mosé
trionfante (1800) and Il ritorno di Noemi (1802), two secular and two
sacred cantatas and 23 masses, including a Missa pro defunctis (1809)
and Messa breve in F (1810). Together with Vincenzo Tobia Bellini, he
was the most prominent composer in Catania in the second half of the
18th Century.
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