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

Ciampi, Lecrezio Vincenzo

CIAMPI, LECRENZIO VINCENZO

Italian original Cite

CIAMPI, LECREZIO VINCENZO. - Musician from Piacenza, b. in 1719, studied in Piacenza with the chapel master Rondini, moved to Naples (perhaps a pupil of Durante and of S. Leo), then to Palermo and therefore, in 1748 to London, to Venice where he became master of the choirs at the conservatory of the Pio ospedale degli incurabili (an office in which he was succeeded, in 1726, by Baldassarre Galuppi), in 1752 to Paris and again to London and to Venice in 1762. The date and place of his death are unknown.

He wrote various oratorios: Bethulia liberata (1747), Christus a Matre quaesitus et in Calvario inventus (1745), Vexillum fidei (1759), Virgines prudentes et fatuae (1760), Modula Mira Sacra (1757), masses, Te Deum, Salve Regina, as well as pieces of instrumental music, among them 6 concertos for organ which are found in the libraries of Berlin, Dresden, Vienna and London.

Luisa Cervelli

About this entry

By Luisa Cervelli

How we know signed in print

Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), col. 1576.

More by Luisa Cervelli: Ciconia, Iohannes · Cimarosa, Domenico · Charpentier, Marc-Antoine · Clari, Giovanni Carlo Maria · Clemens, Jacob, called non Papa

Cite this article

Chicago

Cervelli, Luisa. “Ciampi, lecrenzio vincenzo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 1576. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/ciampi-lecrenzio-vincenzo.

MLA

Cervelli, Luisa. “Ciampi, lecrenzio vincenzo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1576. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/ciampi-lecrenzio-vincenzo.

BibTeX

@incollection{ec3_ciampi_lecrenzio_vincenzo,
  author    = {Cervelli, Luisa},
  title     = {Ciampi, lecrenzio vincenzo},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {III},
  pages     = {1576},
  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/ciampi-lecrenzio-vincenzo}
}

One of some 20,000 entries brought back from the twelve printed volumes (1948–54). Spotted something? Help us improve it.