Francesco Maria Zuccari
Francesco Maria Zuccari
Genres: italian, 18th century
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About Francesco Maria Zuccari
Francesco Maria Zuccari (Dosolo , 1694 - 1788) was an Italian Franciscan, composer and organist. The date of birth is uncertain and deduced from a rich correspondence. Zuccari was present at the basilica of Assisi as early as 1718 as the first organist and from 1725 to 1727 as choirmaster. In 1727, after refusing the same post in Padua , he accepted a transfer to the Basilica of the XII Apostles in Rome . Later he was first organist in Padua from 1742 to 1749, when he gave up the post to take over the direction of the chapel in Assisi again . He took the written music with him to Padua , where none of his works remained. In the musical funds preserved in Assisi (Fondo di Cappella and Fondo del Maestro di Cappella) there are instead numerous manuscripts - sometimes autographs - of his works which, with the addition of a few other sources (for example those preserved in Bologna), lead to the attribution to this musician over four hundred compositions , almost exclusively of sacred music. If the analysis of the graphic elements confirms with certainty that the author of the manuscript is by Zuccari, it remains to be determined whether he is a simple copyist or if he is also the author of the Sonatas. His interest in the cello is testified by the presence in the same collection of Assisi of a series of Exercises for the cello , autographed and dated 1760; from the historical point of view, the proximity of Antonio Vandini in the Paduan period and the fact that, going to Rome on the occasion of the Jubilee of 1750 , the famous cellist stopped in Assisi : the sonatas could have been written (or copied) for him. The CD of six of the ten sonatas for cello and continuo contained in the manuscript will be published, performed by the ensemble Mvsica Perdvta , directed by Maestro Renato Criscuolo
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