Andrea Stefano Fiorè (1686-1732) - Venite exultemus

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Composer: Andrea Stefano Fiorè (1686-1732)
Work: Venite exultemus
Performers: Roberto Balconi (1967-2025, alto);
Cyrille Gеrstеnhabеr (soprano); https://tinyurl.com/69kc8925
Orféo orchestra Budapest; https://tinyurl.com/2s4dbbyv
Chœur départemental de Haute-Savoie;
Bernard Spіzzі (conductor)

Painting: School of Lucca (17th Century) - A Concert
HD image: https://www.dorotheum.com/cz/l/9500972/

Further info: https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00004S3DR
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Andrea Stefano Fiorè [Fiore, Fiori, Gierosa]
(Milan, 1686 - Turin, 6 October 1732)

Italian composer. Son of Angelo Maria Fiorè (1660-1723), he was a child prodigy: in the dedication of his 'Sinfonie da chiesa' (1699) he explained that the pieces 'are the last squalls of my infancy, and the first expressions of my boyhood, I having just turned 13'. The title-page of this collection of 12 trio sonatas indicates that he was 'musico di camera' of the dedicatee, Vittorio Amedeo II, Duke of Savoy, a member of the Bolognese Accademia Filarmonica (which he joined with his father in 1697), and Milanese by birth. The royal account books in the Turin State Archive show that the duke sent Andrea Stefano with Giovanni Battista Somis, to study in Rome. An opera composed for Carnival 1707, 'La casta Penelope', was well received, and the Duke of Savoy soon thereafter appointed Fiorè his maestro di cappella on 13 June 1707. Until his death in 1732 he was in charge of the 30 to 36 musicians at the Turin court and the singers at the cathedral. 16 scores of sacred music in the cathedral chapter archive testify to his direction of the choir there. Johann Joachim Quantz, who visited Turin in June 1726 and praised Fiorè’s orchestra and its leader Somis, wrote that he regarded Fiorè one of the best Italian composers of church sonatas. Until more scores of his operas come to light, modern judgment of Fiorè’s music must be based chiefly on his published trios, a handful of solo cantatas and his surviving choral music.