Giacomo Carissimi

Giacomo Carissimi (baptized the April 18th 1605, died with Rome the January 12th 1674) was a Italian Compositeur , one of most eminent of the period Baroque and one of the principal representatives of the Roman École.

Biography

There exists much of remote regions in its life which one knows only the broad outlines.

His/her father, Amico (1548-1633) follows the occupation of wet cooper. It Marie with Livia (1565-1622) on May 14th, 1595. They have 7 children. Giacomo is youngest. The date of its birth, with Marini close to Rome, is not known: it is located in 1605 or, as soon as possible, in 1604. He studied the song and the Orgue with the cathedral of Tivoli, worked with Assise before settling with Rome.

Giacomo Carissimi is established with Assise, where he exerts the function of choirmaster to the San-Ruffino cathedral between 1628 and 1629.

He was choirmaster to the church of the Collegio germanico with Rome of 1629 to his death. He was invited to Venice and with Vienna (Austria) but he declined the stations proposed. He had many pupils of which Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Alessandro Scarlatti.

Chosen for pontifical choirmaster in 1649, it introduced into the churches the accompaniment of the instrumental music, and was the first which employed the Cantate for religious subjects. It meets in 1656 the queen Christine of Sweden in exile and composed of many profane parts in its honor.

The majority of its Roman works are known only by copies, the autographs having been dispersed or destroyed after dissolution about the Jésuite S in 1773.

It remains for its heirs the largest type-setter to the 17th century (“the largest type-setter which Italy produced” according to Pierre Bonnet in 1715)

There are of him Messe S, Oratorio S, Motet S and Cantate S. One notices especially his cantatas the Sacrifice of Jephté and the Judgment of Solomon , his motet Turbabuntur impii .

Partial works

Jephte, oratorio crowned (fragment published by Kircher, Musurgia)
Jonas, oratorio crowned
Balthazar, oratorio crowned
Judicium Salomonis, oratorio crowned (published in “Continuatio Theatri Musici” (1669), like a composition of Samuel Bockshorn (Capricornus), but considered as a work of Carissimi by Brossard, in its “Dictionary of music”
Divine Maluses, oratorio crowned
Diluvium Universale, oratorio crowned
Extremum Dei Judicium, oratorio crowned (Copy with the Academy of Brussels)
Daniele, oratorio crowned (Handwritten partial in British Museum of London)
History on Abramo E Isacco, oratorio
History of Ezechia, oratorio
History of Job, oratorio
Vir frugi and Lord's Prayer familias (handwritten partial at the National library of France)
Lamentatio Damnatorum (published in “Sacri Concerti Musicali” 1697)
Congratulated beatorum, oratorio crowned
Martyres, oratorio crowned (handwritten partial in Hamburg and Paris)
Missa has 5 and has 9 vocum selectis quibusdam Cantionibus, Colonia 1666
Missa the armed Man has 12 v. (manuscript Cappella Laterana, Roma)
Messes (Libraries: Amsterdam: Brittich Museum, London; National-Bibliothek, Wien; Library of the cathedral of Pistoja; Martini academy of Bologna)
Motets (manuscripts 103,68,59,3100, Staatsbibliothek Berlin)
the irreligious person; On Charity; On the Purgatory, motets (ms. Abstr. F. 934 has, Cons. Paris)
5 Motets (handwritten in Christ Church, Oxford)
13 profane cantatas, Chigi Codex (of which Crolla it mondo) Biblioteca Varticana, Roma
4 profane cantatas, Barberini Codex (whose I naviganti) Biblioteca Varticana, Roma
39 cantatas profane, Bibliothèque of San Pietro has Maiella, Naples
Environ 14 profane cantatas, Library of the Cherubini Academy in Florenz
10 Arias, in “Musical Correr” of Venice
20 profane cantatas, Conservatoire Martini, Bologna;
31 profane cantatas, in various manuscripts (of which I Ciechi, I filosofi)
2 cantatas extracted from Giudizio Universale, on texts of Domenico Benigni, Bibliotaca Estense, Modena
History of the Cyclops, joke
History of the Ass, joke
the Latin and French burlesque Requiem, joke (manuscript Rés. F. 934 has, National library of France, funds of the Academy)

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