Mario Capuana
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Mario Capuana was an Italian composer of motets and a requiem.
He was maestro di capella at the Cathedral of Noto
in the Province of Syracuse from 1628 to his death in 1647. In the years before and immediately after his death were published a small flurry of works in Venice.
He was maestro di capella at the Cathedral of Noto
Noto
Noto is a city and comune in the Province of Syracuse, Sicily . Its located 32 km southwest of the city of Syracuse at the foot of the Iblean Mountains and gives its name to the surrounding valley, Val di Noto...
in the Province of Syracuse from 1628 to his death in 1647. In the years before and immediately after his death were published a small flurry of works in Venice.
Editions
- Messa da requiem a 4 (Venice, posthumous 1650) - edited with Requiem (1653) of Bonaventura RubinoBonaventura RubinoFray Bonaventura Rubino was an Italian composer.According to his publications, his origin of "Montecchio di Lombardia" probably indicates that he was from Montecchio in Darfo Boario Terme, one hour east of Bergamo...
. 1999. A copy is preserved in the Archive of the Sing-Akademie Zu BerlinBerlin SingakademieThe Sing-Akademie zu Berlin is a musical society founded in Berlin in 1791 by Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, harpsichordist to the court of Prussia, on the model of the 18th century London Academy of Ancient Music.-Early history:...
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. - Sacro Armonie a tre voci con Basso Continuo por sonar il Clavicembalo ò altro Stromento di Mario Capuana Maestro di Capella.
- Mario Capuana Motetti concertati a due, tre, quattro e cinque voci (1649) edition 1998. - This is one of the series of Renaissance Sicilian composers including Claudio PariClaudio PariClaudio Pari was a Sicilian composer, of Burgundian birth, of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a competent madrigalist, well regarded by his peers, as well as a late representative of the musical style/ethos known as musica reservata.-Life:As has been recently established, he...
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, Vincenzo Gallo.