Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei (1649-1732) - La Fiera (1691)

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Composer: Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei (1649-1732)
Work: La Fiera (1691)
Performers: TöIzer Knabenchor; Convivium Musicum München

Painting: Unknown artist (17th Century) - Monkeys and Cats at a Masked Ball (1632)
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Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei
(Roma, 1649 - Munich, 9 March 1732)

Italian composer. Elder son of Ercole Bernabei (1622-1687) and brother of Vincenzo Bernabei (1660-c.1735). He presumably studied with his father, and probably replaced him at the organ of S Luigi dei Francesi from July 1665 to April 1667. He then went to work with him as vice-Kapellmeister in Munich, a post he assumed on 24 June 1677. After his father’s death he became Hofkapellmeister there. During the first 15 years of his career at Munich he regularly wrote operas, but the political situation then cut short this activity. When the production of opera was resumed Pietro Torri became the principal composer, Bernabei – who was a priest – restricting his output to sacred music. A large number of his sacred works are listed in the 1753 catalogue of the Munich Hofkapelle together with 30 sinfonias and three ‘Sinfonie, e Pastorel’. #ClassicalMusic