FOGGIA, FRANCESCO. – Musician, born in Rome in 1605, died there in 1688 and was buried in S. Prassede. He studied with Cifra, Nassini, and Agostini. He was chapel master to the elector of Cologne, Ferdinando Massimiliano, then at the court of Bavaria and that of Archduke Leopoldo d’Austria.
He subsequently passed from the cathedrals of Narni and Montefiascone to the Roman churches of S. Maria in Aquiro, S. Maria in Trastevere, S. Giovanni in Laterano, S. Lorenzo in Damaso, and S. Maria Maggiore, where his successor was his son Antonio. Many books of motets, Masses, sacrae cantiones, litanies, psalms, offertories, etc., written from 1640 to 1681, remain. In the Lettera scritta dal sig. Autimo Liberati in risposta ad una del sig. Ovidio Persapegi (Roma 1684), high praise is given to the music of F. F. Moreover, Martini, in his Saggio di contrappunto (Bologna 1774-1775), analyzes several motets by the Roman musician.