Francesco Feo (1691 - 18/01/1761), an Italian composer; born and died in Naples. He studied with Basso and Fago, perhaps also in Rome with Pitoni. Served as maestro of the Conservatorio di S. Onoffio, 1723 - 1739, with Jommelli among his students; as maestro of the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo, 1739-43; and as maestro di cappella at the church of the Annunziata, 1726 - 1745, where he was succeeded by his nephew, Gennaro Manna. A portrait of him, seated alongside theory books of Zarlino, Fux, and Scorpione, is in the Civico Museo bibliografico musicale, Bologna.
From the late 17th century onwards, mainly through the contributions of leading opera composers such as Feo, Galuppi, Hasse, Pergolesi, Jommelli, Gassmann, Cimarosa and Gossec, individual movements of the requiem became gradually larger, the orchestration richer and the solo vocal writing more elaborate. In some cases, single texts, usually the sequence and the responsory, were set separately, either as independent motets or as a means of providing vivid contrast within chanted forms of the funeral service.
Author: | Steven Chang-Lin Yu |
Dies irae in G minor
Period: | Baroque |
Musical form: | motet |
Text/libretto: | Thomas de Celano |
Dies irae in G minor for four voices.
Source: | Robert Chase, Dies Irae: A Guide to Requiem Music, Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2003 |
Dies irae in C minor
Period: | Baroque |
Musical form: | motet |
Text/libretto: | Thomas de Celano |
Duration: | 1'41 |
Label(s): | Erato 0190295633745 |
Dies irae in C minor for five voices.
♫ Dies irae
© Erato 0190295633745
Source: | Robert Chase, Dies Irae: A Guide to Requiem Music, Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2003 |
Missa defunctorum in D minor
Period: | Baroque |
Composed in: | 1718 |
Musical form: | mass |
Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
Missa defunctorum in D minor for five voices, violins and basso continuo.
Source: | Dagny Wegner, Requiemvertonungen in Frankreich zwischen 1670 und 1850, Hamburg, 2005 |
Oratorium pro defunctis
Period: | Baroque |
Composed in: | 1723 |
Musical form: | oratorium |
Text/libretto: | Latin |
Oratorium pro defunctis for four voices and instruments.
Source: | Robert Chase, Dies Irae: A Guide to Requiem Music, Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2003 |
Oratorium pro defunctis
Period: | Baroque |
Composed in: | 1725 |
Musical form: | oratorium |
Text/libretto: | Latin |
Oratorium pro defunctis for four voices and instruments.
Source: | Robert Chase, Dies Irae: A Guide to Requiem Music, Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2003
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Oratorium pro fidelium defunctorum
Period: | Baroque |
Composed in: | 1728 |
Musical form: | oratorium |
Text/libretto: | Latin |
Oratorium pro fidelium defunctorum for four voices and instruments.
Source: | Robert Chase, Dies Irae: A Guide to Requiem Music, Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2003
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Oratorium pro fidelium defunctorum
Period: | Baroque |
Composed in: | 1731 |
Musical form: | oratorium |
Text/libretto: | Latin |
Oratorium pro fidelium defunctorum for four voices and instruments.
Source: | Robert Chase, Dies Irae: A Guide to Requiem Music, Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2003 |
Drei Sätze aus 'Miserere'
Period: | Romanticism |
Musical form: | motet |
Drei Sätze aus „Miserere“ a due voci. Printed: Leizig, 1873
No. 1, Miserere mei Deus („Ach erbarme, Herr“).
No. 2, Auditui meo („Erhör’ unser Flehen“).
No. 3, Requiem („Ew’ge Ruhe“).
Source: | Drei Sätze aus „Miserere“ a due voci. No. 1, Miserere mei Deus („Ach erbarme, Herr“). No. 2, Auditui meo („Erhör’ unser Flehen“). No. 3, Requiem („Ew’ge Ruhe“). 20 ngr. |