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Giovanni Francesco Brusa
c.1700 - aft.1768
Italy
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:
I. Introitus: Requiem II. Kyrie: Maestoso II. Christe: Andantino II. Kyrie: Capella III. Sequentia: Dies Irae III. Mors Stupebit III. Judex Ergo Cum Sedebit III. Quid Sum Miser Tunc Dicturus III. Rex Tremendae Majestatis IV. Sanctus V. Adoramus Te VI. 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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