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Francesco Brusa
c.1700 - aft.1768
Italy
Giovanni Francesco [Francesco] Brusa -also: Gianfrancesco Bruscia, Brugia, Brusca- (c.1700 - aft.1768), an Italian composer, from Venice. He was known as an organist at the church of San Marco before he began his career as a composer. Towards the end of his life, he was Maestro di Coro at the Incurabili. In Brusa's collection of church music, the Missa pro defunctis is his only surviving mass setting, having been written for the Incurabili musicians in 1767.
Missa pro defunctis in B flat major
The Missa pro defunctis for SSA contains:
01. Introitus: Requiem 02a. Kyrie: Maestoso 02b. Christe: Andantino 02c. Kyrie: Capella 03a. Sequentia: Dies Irae 03b. Mors Stupebit 03c. Judex Ergo Cum Sedebit 03d. Quid Sum Miser Tunc Dicturus 03e. Rex Tremendae Majestatis 04. Sanctus 05. Adoramus Te 06. Agnus Dei
This requiem was written for the musicians of Ospedale I Incurabili, one of the four Institutions of Charity in Venice in the 18th century.
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