Sebastiano Bolis (c.1750-1804) - Kyrie in Re maggiore

Sebastiano Bolis (c.1750-1804) - Kyrie in Re maggiore

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Composer: Sebastiano Bolis (c.1750-1804)
Work: Kyrie in Re maggiore
Performers: Hаrmonia Sacra; Peter Lееch (conductor)

Drawing: Francesco Pannini (1745-1812) - Das Innere der Peterskirche in Rom
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Map: John Senex (1678-1740) - A New Mapp of Rome Shewing Its Antient And Present Scituation (1721)
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Sebastiano Bolis
(Rome, c.1750 - Rieti, 5 February 1804)

Italian composer. Little is known of his early life and, like many church composers working in late-eighteenth-century Rome, he has been all but completely forgotten. The earliest extant and dated composition is the Missa 'dilexisti iustitiam' (1776) which, probably a few years later, helped him to be appointed chapel master at the church of San Lorenzo in Damaso in Rome. In 1795 he assumed the same post at San Antonio in Rome. The fact that several of his sacred compositions are in manuscript form in the Archive of the Vatican Cappella Giulia and in the Abbot Fortunato Santini collection, who collected, among many others, especially the works of the most significant masters of sacred music, leads one to believe that Bolis was very close to the environment of the Papal Chapel, whose influence he certainly underwent. During the carnival season of 1778-79, his intermezzi 'Li raggiri amorosi' was performed at the Teatro di Tordinona. On 3 December 1801 he was unanimously elected, with a salary of 80 scudi, chapel master at the Rieti cathedral in a post he held the rest of his life. As a composer, his output, mostly sacred, is preserved in manuscript and mainly in three different sources: Santinibibliothek (Münster), the Music Archive of San Giovanni in Laterano (Rome) and the Guildhall Library (London). His music shows a wide variety of styles, from galant to the stile misto and stile antico.