Francesco Foggia

Francesco Foggia (1604-January 8, 1688) was an Italian composer of the Baroque.

Biography

Foggia was a boy soprano at the Collegium Germanicum of the Jesuits in Rome, and was a student of Antonio Cifra, Giovanni Maria Nanino and Paolo Agostini. Later, he was probably employed at the court of the Bavarian Elector Maximilian I in Munich and then again in Vienna.

He served in various churches in Rome as an organist. From October 1634 he served for two years at the chapel of St. Mary in Travestere; from December 1646 to 1662 he was Kapellmeister of the Patriarchal Basilica of St. John Lateran. In 1667, while musical director of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Damaso, he published a collection, "Psalmodia Vespertina", containing psalms, Magnificats, and Marian antiphons. From 1677 until his death, he was a cantor at the papal basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome; his son Antonio succeeded him in this position.

Works (selection)

*"Beatus ille servus", 4-part motet for men's chorus and basso continuo, Braun-Peretti Bonn 1984
*"Beatus vir qui timet dominum", Manuscript in the papers of Gustav Düben
*"Celebrate o fideles" (1646), Manuscript in the papers of Gustav Düben
*"Cessate, deh, Cessate" for soprano and basso continuo, "Cantio Sacra", vol. 38, ed. Rudolf Ewerhart, Verlag Edmund Bieler Köln 1976
*"Confitebor tibi domine", Manuscript in the papers of Gustav Düben
*"David fugiens a facie Saul", oratorio
*"De valle lacrimarum" for soloists and basso continuo, "Cantio Sacra", vol. 28, ed. Rudolf Ewerhart, Verlag Edmund Bieler Köln
*"Dixit Dominus Domino meo", C. Hofius Ammerbuch, 2007
*"Domine quinque talenta", Manuscript in the papers of Gustav Düben
*"Egredimini addicte Christi nomini", Manuscript in the papers of Gustav Düben
*"Eccelsi lumini cultures", Manuscript in the papers of Gustav Düben
*"Exultantes et laetantes", Manuscript in the papers of Gustav Düben
*"Gaudete jubilate o gentes", C. Hofius Ammerbuch, 2007
*"Hodie apparuerunt voluptates", Manuscript in the papers of Gustav Düben
*"Laetamini cum Jerusalem", Manuscript in the papers of Gustav Düben
*"Laeta nobis refulget dies", Manuscript in the papers of Gustav Düben
*"Laetantes canite diem laetitia", Manuscript in the papers of Gustav Düben
*"Laetatus sum in his", Manuscript in the papers of Gustav Düben
*"Laudate Dominum omnes gentes", Manuscript in the papers of Gustav Düben
*"Laudate Pueri Dominum", C. Hofius Ammerbuch, 2007
*"Magnificat" for 5 voices and basso continuo
*"Magnificat concertata con instromenti di 6 tono" for 9-voice choir and instruments, C. Hofius Ammerbuch, 2007
*"Quare suspiras in dolore anima mea"
*"Serve bone et fidelis"
*"Tobiae oratorium", oratorio
*"Victoria Passionis Christi", oratorio

Notes and references

Further reading

*Carl Fassbender: "Francesco Foggia (1604-1688): Untersuchungen zu seinem Leben und zu seinem Motettenschaffen", dissertation. Bonn, 1980
*Gunther Morche: "Francesco Foggia: Sein Beitrag zur konzertierenden Motette", in: "Musica e musicisti nel Lazio", Fondazione Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Palestrina 1998

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