Giacomo Carissimi

Italian composer

(Gian) Giacomo Carissimi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈʒaːkomo kaˈrissimi]; baptized 18 April 1605 – 12 January 1674) was an Italian composer and music teacher. He is one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque or, more accurately, the Roman School of music. Carissimi established the characteristic features of the Latin oratorio and was a prolific composer of masses, motets, and cantatas. He was highly influential in musical developments in northern European countries through his pupils, like Kerll in Germany and Charpentier in France, and the wide dissemination of his music.

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  • A piè d'un verde alloro "I Filosofi"
  • Ahi! Non torna
  • Annunciate, gentes
  • Ardens est cor
  • Bel tempo per me se n’andò
  • Confitemini domino
  • Così volete
  • Deh, memoria
  • Desiderata nobis
  • Detesta la cativa sorte in armore "E pur vuole il cielo"
  • Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): Avernales inter poenas
  • Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): En vitae suprema
  • Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): Erat vir quidam opulentissimus
  • Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): Factum est autem in moreretur
  • Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): Heu miser, quid audis
  • Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): Heu se miserum
  • Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): Iam satis edisti
  • Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): Martuus est ergo dives
  • Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): Morere, infelix
  • Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): O dives miserrime
  • Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): O spes, mias fallaces
  • Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): Pater Abraham, miserere mei
  • Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): Quam stulti sunt, quam vani
  • Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): Sat mensas mille plenas
  • Dives Malus: Hos Statim Mors Acerba
  • Dives Malus: Nec Terra Usquam
  • Dives Malus: Sic Cordis In Pietate
  • Ecce nos reliquimus
  • Exulta, gaude, filia Sion
  • Ezechia
  • Fuggite, fuggite
  • Historia Divitis (Dives Malus)
  • Historia di Abraham et Isaac, oratorio for 2 sopranos, 2 tenors, 2 basses, chorus, orchestra and continuo: “Non extendas manum tuam super Isaac” (Angelus, Abraham, Isaac)
  • Historia di Abraham et Isaac, oratorio for 2 sopranos, 2 tenors, 2 basses, chorus, orchestra and continuo: “Pater mi, ecce ignis” (Isaac, Historicus, Abraham)
  • Historia di Abraham et Isaac, oratorio for 2 sopranos, 2 tenors, 2 basses, chorus, orchestra and continuo: “Qui misit Angelum” (Abraham, chorus)
  • Historia di Abraham et Isaac, oratorio for 2 sopranos, 2 tenors, 2 basses, chorus, orchestra and continuo: “Tentavit Deus Abraham” (Historicus, Deus)
  • Historia di Abraham et Isaac, oratorio for 2 sopranos, 2 tenors, 2 basses, chorus, orchestra and continuo: “Vocavit et iterum Angelus Domini” (Historicus, Angelus, chorus)
  • Historia di Ezechias, oratorio for 2 sopranos, 2 tenors, bass, chorus, orchestra and continuo: “Aegrotante Ezechia” (Angeli, Dominus)
  • Historia di Ezechias, oratorio for 2 sopranos, 2 tenors, bass, chorus, orchestra and continuo: “Ezechia, hoc tibi dicit Dominus” (Isaias, Ezechias, Angeli)
  • Historia di Ezechias, oratorio for 2 sopranos, 2 tenors, bass, chorus, orchestra and continuo: “Misertus est autem Dominus Ezechia et ait” (Angeli, Dominus, Ezechias)
  • Historia di Ezechias, oratorio for 2 sopranos, 2 tenors, bass, chorus, orchestra and continuo: “Narrabimus omnes opera Domini” (chorus)
  • Historia di Ezechias, oratorio for 2 sopranos, 2 tenors, bass, chorus, orchestra and continuo: “Obsecro, Domine” (Ezechias)
  • Historia di Jephte, oratorio for soli, chorus and orchestra: “Cantate mecum Domino” (Filia, chorus)
  • Historia di Jephte, oratorio for soli, chorus and orchestra: “Cum autem victor Jephte” (Historicus, Filia, chorus)
  • Historia di Jephte, oratorio for soli, chorus and orchestra: “Cum vidisset Jephte” (Historicus, Jephte)
  • Historia di Jephte, oratorio for soli, chorus and orchestra: “Cum vocasset in proelium” (Historicus, Jephte, chorus)
  • Historia di Jephte, oratorio for soli, chorus and orchestra: “Et percussit Jephte” (Historicus)
  • Historia di Jephte, oratorio for soli, chorus and orchestra: “Pater mi, si voviste votum Domino” (Filia, Jephte)
  • Historia di Jephte, oratorio for soli, chorus and orchestra: “Plorate colles” (Filia, Eccho)
  • Historia di Jephte, oratorio for soli, chorus and orchestra: “Plorate filii Israel” (chorus)
  • Historia di Jephte, oratorio for soli, chorus and orchestra: “Vade filia mea” (Jephte, Historicus a 4)
  • I Filosofo
  • Il Ciarlatano, cantata
  • Il giudizio di Salomone
  • Il mio core è un mar di pianti
  • Jephte
  • Jonas
  • Judicium Extremum
  • Judicium Salomonis
  • Lamento della Regina Maria Stuarda
  • Lamento di Maria Stuarda
  • Lettera amorosa
  • Lucifer, caelestis olim
  • Lungi, homai, deh spiega
  • Magnificat a 8 voci
  • Mass for Three Men's Voices and Basso Continuo
  • Mass for Three Men's Voices and Basso Continuo: Agnus Dei
  • Mass for Three Men's Voices and Basso Continuo: Credo
  • Mass for Three Men's Voices and Basso Continuo: Gloria
  • Mass for Three Men's Voices and Basso Continuo: Kyrie
  • Mass for Three Men's Voices and Basso Continuo: Sanctus
  • Messa a otto voci, IGC 27: Credo
  • Messa a otto voci, IGC 27: Gloria
  • Messa a otto voci, IGC 27: Kyrie
  • Motet “O qual pulchra es”, for soprano, strings and continuo
  • Motet “O vulnera dolorim”, for bass and organ
  • Motet “Salve, salve puellule”, for tenor, strings and continuo
  • Paratum, cor meum
  • Partenza dalla sua Donna
  • Peregrin d’ignoto sponde
  • Piangete aure, Piangete
  • Qui non renuntiat
  • Salve puellule "Per il Natale"
  • Soccorretemi ch’io moro
  • Sonetto “Hor che di Sirio”
  • Super flumina Babylonis
  • Tolle Sponsa for soprano, bass, chorus and continuo
  • Tu m’hai preso
  • Turbabuntur impii
  • Vaghi rai, pupille ardenti
  • Vanitas Vanitatum
  • Vidi impium
  • Vittoria, mio core
  • Vittoria, mio core!