Giuseppe Geremia (1732-1814) - Missa pro defunctis (1809)

Buon compleanno Giuseppe Geremia! 🙏🏼🍷 Composer: Giuseppe Geremia (1732-1814) Work: Missa pro defunctis (1809) Performers: Katia Ricciаrеlli (soprano); Francesca Apаrο (alto); Salvatore Fisichеlla (tenor); Furio Zаnаsi (baritone); Camerata Polifonica Siciliana; Douglas Bοstοck (conductor) Painting: Luigi Sabatelli (1772-1850) - The eviction of Heliodor from the temple HD image: Further info: Listen free: No available --- Giuseppe Geremia (Catania, 19 November 1732 - Catania, January 1814) Italian composer. He studied in Naples at the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto, where he was a pupil of Francesco Durante. His first work, an oratorio entitled The Flight into Egypt or Jesus Stolen into Egypt, dates from this Neapolitan period. Together with Nicola Logroscino and Giacomo Insanguine he composed the music for the comic opera L’innamorato balordo (1763). In 1773 he became maestro di cappella in Catania at both the cathedral and the Benedictine abbey of San Nicolò l’Arena. He later left the cathedral post to his pupil Giacinto Castorina in 1800 but retained the abbey position at least until 1807. Geremia’s surviving works include about 100 sacred compositions held in manuscript mostly in Catania. Among these are the dialogo teatrale La città d’Abella liberata of 1780, 12 other oratorios including Mosé trionfante (1800) and Il ritorno di Noemi (1802), two secular and two sacred cantatas and 23 masses, including a Missa pro defunctis (1809) and Messa breve in F (1810). Together with Vincenzo Tobia Bellini, he was the most prominent composer in Catania in the second half of the 18th Century.