Erasmo di Bartolo

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Erasmo Bartolo
Born1606 (1606)
Died1656(1656-00-00) (aged 49–50)
Occupation(s)Catholic priest and composer

Erasmo Bartoli Filippino, or Erasmo di Bartolo, called padre Raimo (1606–1656), was an Italian priest, composer, and teacher at the conservatories in Naples.[1]

Bartolo was born in Gaeta. His students included Giovanni Salvatore. He died in the Naples plague of 1656.

Works, editions and recordings[edit]

  • Quarant'ore con musica a quattro chori.
Recordings:
  • psalm on Vespro Solenne (Napoli 1632). with works by G. M. Sabino, Majello. (Symphonia 91S04) 1993

References[edit]

  1. ^ Music in seventeenth-century Naples: Francesco Provenzale (1624–1704) Dinko Fabris - 2007 ".... is Erasmo Di Bartolo (Gaeta, 1606 - Naples, 1656), called 'Padre Raimo' ...Gelormini della congregazione dell'Oratorio di San Filippo Neri, dov'erano le Quarant'ore con musica a quattro chori. Invenzione che fu del padre Raimo Bartolo da Gaeta, che mori di peste nel 1656, e fu cantato il muttetto a 4 Chori O ... The composition was by Father Raimo Bartolo da Gaeta, who died of the plague in 1656, and the motet for four choirs O sacrum convivium was sung. Do not make fun of this information, Reader, for he was a priest who led a saintly life and "