CLARI, GIOVANNI CARLO MARIA. - Musician, b. at Pisa on 27 Nov. 1677, d. there on 16 May 1754. He studied first with his father Giovanni Antonio (choirmaster of the cathedral of Pistoia) and then with G. P. Colonna at Bologna. He was choirmaster at the cathedral in Pistoia (from 1720) and at Pisa (from 1736 until his death).
He composed 11 oratorios, among them Adama (1723), S. Cecilia (1711), La difesa della Verità e dell'Innocenza (1715), Ester (1715), S. Francesco (1728), L'innocenza difesa in Susanna, La morte di Saul, S. Nicolò (1716), S. Stefano, and much church music: masses (also for 8 voices), 1 Requiem, graduals, psalms, vespers, 7 hymns for 4 voices, Pange lingua, 2 Te Deum, 1 Stabat Mater for 4 voices with violins and violas (1744), Lamentationi de Giovedì Santo (soprano), responsories, motets, etc., contained, for the most part, in manuscripts of the libraries of Bologna, Milan, Pisa, Pistoia, Berlin, Cambridge, London, Regensburg, Vienna. An Ave maris stella for 4 voices with instruments was reprinted by Pecchiai at Pisa in 1931.
Cervelli, Luisa. “Clari, giovanni carlo maria.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 1771. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/clari-giovanni-carlo-maria.
MLA
Cervelli, Luisa. “Clari, giovanni carlo maria.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1771. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/clari-giovanni-carlo-maria.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec3_clari_giovanni_carlo_maria,
author = {Cervelli, Luisa},
title = {Clari, giovanni carlo maria},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {1771},
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/clari-giovanni-carlo-maria}
}
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