Previous posts for April 19th may be found here: Germaine Tailleferre (2019), Jonathan Tunick (2020), David Fanshawe (2021)
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Orazio Benevoli (19 April 1605 – 17 June 1672), was a Franco-Italian composer of large scaled polychoral sacred works.
Credit Where Credit Isn’t Due
Much of his fame as a composer has rested on his supposed composition of the fifty-three part Missa Salisburgensis, which musicologists long believed was written by Benevoli in Salzburg Cathedral in 1628. Nevertheless, external and internal evidence has demonstrated that it is in fact the work of Heinrich Ignaz Biber, and that it dates not from 1628 but from 1682. – adapted from Wikipedia
Orazio Benevoli wrote
Music for multiple choirs,
Which, though it keeps his name afloat,
Is music that no one admires.
The work that made him famous is
The Missa Salisburgensis,
Which now is not considered his,
By scholarly consensus.
And that will just about erase
His name from the chronology,
Another victim losing face
Because of musicology.
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