Asprilio Pacelli
Asprilio Pacelli (or Pecelli) (1570 – 4 May 1623) was an Italian Baroque composer. He was born in Vasciano near Narni in Stroncone, Province of Terni, Umbria, Italy; and died in Warsaw.
Life
He was a boy chorister at Cappella Giulia under Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. He served at two Roman churches: Santa Maria in Monserrato and Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini. Maestro di cappella of the Collegio Germanico (from 1595), he held the same position at S Pietro from 1602, but he left the post to Francesco Soriano from 1 January 1603; in the same year Pacelli became Maestro di cappella of King Sigismund III of Poland, who had one of the most important royal chapels in Europe.<ref>Luca Marenzio, Marco Scacchi and Giovanni Francesco Anerio were musicians at the same court.</ref> He remained at that position until his death. In appreciation, the King ordered an epitaph commemorating Pacelli to be constructed in the St. John's Cathedral in Warsaw.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The original epitaph with the composer's portrait was destroyed when the Cathedral was also destroyed during the Planned destruction of Warsaw;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> it was nonetheless reconstructed after the war.
References
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Bibliography
- Mirosław Perz, Asprilio Pacelli, in «New Grove Dictionary»;
- Cristina Santarelli, Asprilio Pacelli, in «Dizionario Enciclopedico Universale della Musica e dei Musicisti», Torino, 1985;
- Alberto Cametti, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Ed. Ricordi, 1894.