Sebastiano Bolis (c.1750-1804)
- Kyrie in Re maggiore
Performers: Hаrmonia Sacra; Peter Lееch (conductor)
Further info: Princely Splendour - Choral Works From 18th Century Rome
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Italian composer. Little is known of his early life and, like many
church composers working in late-eighteenth-century Rome, he has been
all but completely forgotten. The earliest extant and dated composition
is the Missa 'dilexisti iustitiam' (1776) which, probably a few years
later, helped him to be appointed chapel master at the church of San
Lorenzo in Damaso in Rome. In 1795 he assumed the same post at San
Antonio in Rome. The fact that several of his sacred compositions are in
manuscript form in the Archive of the Vatican Cappella Giulia and in
the Abbot Fortunato Santini collection, who collected, among many
others, especially the works of the most significant masters of sacred
music, leads one to believe that Bolis was very close to the environment
of the Papal Chapel, whose influence he certainly underwent. During the
carnival season of 1778-79, his intermezzi 'Li raggiri amorosi' was
performed at the Teatro di Tordinona. On 3 December 1801 he was
unanimously elected, with a salary of 80 scudi, chapel master at the
Rieti cathedral in a post he held the rest of his life. As a composer,
his output, mostly sacred, is preserved in manuscript and mainly in
three different sources: Santinibibliothek (Münster), the Music Archive
of San Giovanni in Laterano (Rome) and the Guildhall Library (London).
His music shows a wide variety of styles, from galant to the stile misto
and stile antico.
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