Girolamo Rossi
Girolamo Rossi
Genres: italian, 18th century
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About Girolamo Rossi
Girolamo Rossi (fl. Naples, 1733–1768) is a poorly documented eighteenth-century Neapolitan musician whose historical profile is presently reconstructable only in fragments, through a small set of surviving compositions and a handful of performance and libretto traces connected with devotional institutions and civic-religious celebrations in the Kingdom of Naples. In the modern account that underpins the recent revival of his music, Rossi is presented as a composer active in Naples across the middle decades of the eighteenth century, with no securely known birth or death dates, and with an institutional association described as maestro di cappella at the Oratorio del SS. Crocifisso dei Cavalieri (linked with San Paolo Maggiore). His surviving musical output appears to have been largely occasional and sacred, shaped by the liturgical and confraternal environment of Neapolitan religious life rather than by the public opera-house economy.
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