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.
Author: | Faun Tanenbaum Tiedge |
Missa pro defunctis in B flat major
Period: | Classicism |
Composed in: | 1767 |
Musical form: | mass |
Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
Duration: | 20'10'' |
Label(s): | San Francisco Girls Chorus 1003 |
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.