Giovanni Battista Costanzi (1704-1778) - Dixit Dominus

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Composer: Giovanni Battista Costanzi (1704-1778)
Work: Dixit Dominus
Performers: Harmοnia Sacra; Peter Lееch (conductor)

Painting: Francesco Pannini (1745-1812) - Peterskirche und Petersplatz in Rom
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Painting: Unknown artist (18th Century) - Giovanni Battista Costanzi (1775)
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Giovanni Battista (Giambattista, Juan) Costanzi [Costanza, Costanzj, Giovannino del Violoncello, Giovannino da Roma]
(Rome, 3 September 1704 - Rome, 5 March 1778)

Italian composer, teacher, cellist and organist. A student of Giovanni Lulier, he entered the service of Cardinal Ottoboni in 1721. After the brilliant success of his opera 'Carlo Magno' in 1729, he was appointed to a number of the most important posts of maestro di cappella in Rome: at San Luigi dei Francesi in 1729, at San Lorenzo in Damaso in 1731, at San Marco and Santa Maria in Vallicella in 1743, and at San Pietro (Cappella Giulia) in 1755. As a teacher, his most famous student was Luigi Boccherini. As a composer, his own music has been little studied but includes 17 operas, four cantatas, and a large amount of sacred music as well as few instrumental works, among them, cello concertos and sonatas, and five symphonies. Giovanni Battista Costanzi was among the most prolific composers of the 18th century but only a part of his output has survived. According to André Ernest Modeste Grétry he was one of the best-loved church composers in Rome.