April 19 - Orazio Benevoli (The Musical Birthday Series, 4th Annual Cycle)

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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