Artists Of Then, Now & Forever - Forever Country

Benevoli (Benevoli) Orazio (19 IV 1605, Rome - 17 VI 1672, ibid. ) - Italian composer. He sang as a boy in the choir of the church of San Luigi in Rome (1617-23). In 1623 he was the bandmaster of the chapel of Santa Maria in Trastevere, served in the chapels of the decomp. churches of Italy, from 1644 he worked in Vienna. In 1646 he headed the chapel of chap. Church of the Vatican Santa Maria Maggiore, until 1672 - chapel of the Cathedral of St. Petra in Rome. The representative of the late Roman school, an outstanding counterpointist, B. widely used the principle of multichorism in his work. Wrote preim. church. to the music.