Orazio Benevoli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian composer
Date of Birth: 19-Apr-1605
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Date of Death: 17-Jun-1672
Profession: composer, choir director
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Orazio Benevoli
- Orazio Benevolo or Benevoli (19 April 1605 – 17 June 1672), was a Franco-Italian composer of large scaled polychoral sacred choral works (e.g., one work featured forty-eight vocal and instrumental lines). He was born in Rome, to a French baker and confectioner, Robert Venouot, which name was Italianized to Benevolo.
- Benevolo was a choirboy at San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome (1617–23).
- Later, he assumed posts as maestro di cappella at Santa Maria in Trastevere (from 1624); then, at Santo Spirito in Sassia (from 1630); and, eventually, at his old church, San Luigi dei Francesi (from 1638).
- Benevolo served as Kapellmeister in the court of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria from 1644 to 1646.
- In 1646, Benevoli returned to Rome, where he was choirmaster at Santa Maria Maggiore and at the Cappella Giulia of St.
- Peter's Basilica.
- He was made Guardiano of the Vatican's Congregazione di Santa Cecilia in the years: 1654, 1665 and 1667.
- He died in Rome. His pupils included: Ercole Bernabei, Antimo Liberati and Paolo Lorenzani.
- See: List of music students by teacher: A to B#Orazio Benevoli. He composed Masses, motets, Magnificats, and other sacred vocal works.
- Much of Benevolo's fame as a composer has rested largely on his supposed composition of the fifty-three part Missa Salisburgensis, which musicologists believed was first performed by Benevolo in Salzburg Cathedral in 1628.
- Nevertheless, external and internal evidence have demonstrated that the Mass is in fact the work of composer Heinrich Ignaz Biber.
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