Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. III, 1949 Music Musicians, musicologists and theorists

Caffi, Francesco

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CAFFI, FRANCESCO. - Composer and music historian, b. in Venice in 1778, d. in Padua in 1874. After serving until 1827 in Milan as a court of appeal counsellor, he studied in Venice, carrying out valuable research in the archives and bringing to light a work of capital importance for the musical history of Venice: Storia della musica sacra nella già cappella ducale di S. Marco in Venezia dal 1318 al 1797 (2 vols., Venice 1854-55), and also various monographs on B. Furlanetto (ibid. 1820), A. Lotti (ibid. 1835), B. Marcello (ibid. 1830 and 1841), Zarlino (ibid. 1836), Dragonetti (ibid. 1846), Asola (ibid. 1862). His fame as a composer is far lesser; he left only a cantata entitled: L'armonia richiamata (1811).

Bibliography

BIBL.: T. A. Salvagnini, F. C., musicologo veneziano (1778-1874), in Atti del Congresso internazionale di scienze storiche, VIII, Rome 1905, p. 55.

Luisa Cervelli

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By Luisa Cervelli

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), col. 287.

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Cervelli, Luisa. “Caffi, francesco.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 287. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/caffi-francesco.

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Cervelli, Luisa. “Caffi, francesco.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 287. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/caffi-francesco.

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  author    = {Cervelli, Luisa},
  title     = {Caffi, francesco},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {III},
  pages     = {287},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/caffi-francesco}
}

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