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Orazio Benevoli

Born: 19th April 1605, Rome, Italy

Died: 17th June 1672, Rome, Italy

Nationality: Franco-Italian

Orazio Benevoli or Benevolo was a Franco-Italian composer of large scaled polychoral sacred choral works (e.g., one work featured forty-eight vocal and instrumental lines).

He was born in Rome, to a French baker and confectioner, Robert Venouot or Vénevot, which name was Italianized to Benevolo. Benevoli was a choirboy at San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome (1617–23). Later, he assumed posts as maestro di cappella at Santa Maria in Trastevere (from 1624); then, at Santo Spirito in Sassia (from 1630); and, eventually, at his old church, San Luigi dei Francesi (from 1638). Benevoli served as Kapellmeister in the court of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria from 1644 to 1646.

Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orazio_Benevoli

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Interview, Robert Hollingworth on Benevoli's multi-choir magnificence

7th November 2023

The director of I Fagiolini talks about his new album, featuring a four-choir work of unparalleled Baroque splendour by the seventeenth-century Italian composer Orazio Benevoli.

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