Giacomo Carissimi
1605
– 1674
Personal details
Italian composer, 1605-1674. One of the most important oratorio composers of the 17th century. He almost always took the material for his 15 surviving oratorios from the Old Testament (Historia di Jephte, Abraham et Isaac, Jonas). He also wrote sacred and secular cantatas. However, the majority of his manuscripts were lost in the 18th century.
Publications
8
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