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Perti, Giacomo (Antonio) (1661–1756)| Italian composer. He studied with his uncle Lorenzo Perti, a priest at San Petronio at Bologna, and later with Petronio Franceschini. After visits to Venice and Modena in the 1680s, he became maestro di cappella at San Pietro at Bologna in 1690, and of San Petronio in 1696. |
Works Opera Oreste (1685), Marzio Coriolano, L'incoronazione di Dario (1686), Teodora, Il furio Camillo (1692), Pompeo, Nerone fatto Cesare (1710), Penelope la casta (1696), Fausta, Rodelinda (1710), Lucio Vero (1717), and 17 others. |
Church music Masses, including Missa solemnis for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra; four Passion oratorios; motets, and other pieces. |
Secular oratorio several, including Abramo (1683). |
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