Bernabei, Ercole, 1622-1687

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Name (Latin)
Bernabei, Ercole, 1622-1687
Date of birth
1622
Date of death
1687-12-05
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 61812429
Wikidata: Q467856
Library of congress: no 00049272
TAU10: 000493270
Sources of Information
  • Canta la Maddalena, p2000:container (Ercole Bernabei, 1622-1687)
  • New Grove, 2nd. ed. WWW site, Feb. 15, 2002(under entry for Bernabei (Barnabei), Italian family of composers, active in Germany: Ercole Bernabei; b. 1622, Caprarola; d. Dec. 5, 1687, Munich; father of Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei and Vincenzo Bernabei)
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Wikipedia description:

Ercole Bernabei (Caprarola (Latium), 1622 – Munich, 5 December 1687) was an Italian composer, chapel master and organist. Bernabei was born in Caprarola, and became a pupil of Orazio Benevoli in Rome. From 1653 he served as organist at San Luigi dei Francesi as successor of Luigi Rossi. In July 1665 Bernabei was appointed maestro di cappella at the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran. And from 1672 to 1674 he hold this post at the Cappella Giulia in St. Peter's Basilica thanks to the protection of Christina, Queen of Sweden. In July 1674 Bernabei and his pupil Agostino Steffani moved to Munich, where he superseded Johann Caspar von Kerll as Hofkapellmeister of Ferdinand Maria duke of Bavaria and an elector (Kurfürst) of the Holy Roman Empire. His daughter married another expatriate Italian musician, Gio Paolo Bombarda. He was father to the composer Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei (Rome, 1649 – Munich, 9 March 1732). Ercole Bernabei died in Munich on 5 December 1687.

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