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Italian composer
Carlo Francesco Cesarini
, (c.1666 ? after 2 September 1741) was an Italian composer born in
San Martino al Cimino
near
Viterbo
and active in Rome from 1690. In 1690 he entered into the service of
Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili
as the director of his music academy and remained in his service until the cardinal's death in 1730. Cesarini also served as the
maestro di cappella
in the
Chiesa del Gesu
from 1704 until 31 August 1741. He composed numerous
oratorios
and
cantatas
and was the joint composer of several operas. The opera
Clearco in Negroponte
which he composed with
Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier
and
Tommaso Bernardo Gaffi
inaugurated the public opening of the
Teatro Capranica
on 18 January 1695.
He also set to music many oratorios on
Benedetto Pamphilj
's texts:
San Vincislao
(1704),
Il figliol prodigo
(1707),
Oratorio per l'Assunzione della beatissima Vergine
(1713), e
Il trionfo del Tempo nella Bellezza ravveduta
(1725).
The last known records of him date from early September 1741 and document his retirement as the
maestro di cappella
of the Chiesa del Gesu due to ill health.
Some cantatas of him were recently published in modern edition.
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Bibliography
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- Alexandra Nigito, "Le conversazioni in musica: Carlo Francesco Cesarini, virtuoso di Sua Eccellenza Padrone", in
The Pamphilj and the Arts: Patronage and Consumption in Baroque Rome
, ed. by Stephanie C. Leone, Boston, 2011, pp. 161?188.
References
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Carlo Francesco Cesarini,
Le cantate da camera del ms. 2248 della Biblioteca Casanatense di Roma
, ed. by Giacomo Sciommeri, Rome 2014. Carlo Francesco Cesarini,
Due cantate con strumenti
, ed. by Giacomo Sciommeri, Rome, 2017.
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