Corsi (Corso), Giuseppe (called Celano after his birthplace)

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Corsi (Corso), Giuseppe (called Celano after his birthplace)

Corsi (Corso), Giuseppe (called Celano after his birthplace) , Italian composer; b. Celano, May 1630; d. Dec. 1690. He studied with Carissimi. He served as maestro di cappella at S. Maria Maggiore in Rome (1659–61), at the Lateran Palace chapel (1661–65), and at S. Casa di Loreto (1668–75). He then returned to Rome, but because of his dissemination of books placed on the Church Index, he was persecuted and forced to leave (1678). From 1681 to 1688 he was at the court of the Duke of Parma. Among his pupils were Jacopo Perti (at Parma) and Petronio Franceschini. He publ. Motetti a 2, 3 e 4 voci (Rome, 1667), Miserere a 5, and Motetti a 9, as well as various other works in MS. Several of his works appeared in collections of the time. He is mentioned in Giuseppe Pitoni’s Guida armonica.

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