Also known as:
Archangelo Corelli;
Italian: Arcangelo Correlli
CORELLI, ARCANGELO - Portrait. Engraving by John Smith after H. Howard.CORELLI, ARCANGELO - Frontispiece of op. 3, Rome 1689, engraving by N. Dovigny.
CORELLI, ARCANGELO. - Violinist and composer, b. at Fusignano on 17 Feb. 1653, d. at Rome on 8 Jan. 1713.
In 1677 he was received, in Rome, into the house of Card. Pamphilj, as music master; three years later he entered the service of Card. Ottoboni. First violinist, then director of the concerts at the Palazzo della Cancelleria, he founded a celebrated school from which numerous excellent pupils came. His compositions, six works in print, comprise trio sonatas: 12 church sonatas, 12 chamber sonatas and 12 for violins and bass. Op. 6 contains the famous "Concerto grosso."
Bibliography4 worksC. Piancastelli, Fusignano ad A. C. nel 2° centenario della morte, Bologna 1914; F. Vatelli, Il C. e i maestri bolognesi del suo tempo, in R
BIBL.: C. Piancastelli, Fusignano ad A. C. nel 2° centenario della morte, Bologna 1914; F. Vatelli, Il C. e i maestri bolognesi del suo tempo, in Riv. mus. ital., 23 (1916), p. 173 ff.; A. Cametti, A. C. à St-Louis des Français à Rome, in Rev. musicale, 3 (1922), no. 3; F. Torrefranca, I 150 strumenti ad arco diretti da A. C., in Riv. mus. it., 24 (1917), p. 501 ff.
Francesco Coradini
Coradini, Francesco. “Corelli, arcangelo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, col. 544. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/corelli-arcangelo.
MLA
Coradini, Francesco. “Corelli, arcangelo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 544. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/corelli-arcangelo.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec4_corelli_arcangelo,
author = {Coradini, Francesco},
title = {Corelli, arcangelo},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IV},
pages = {544},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/corelli-arcangelo}
}
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