Asprilio Pacelli

Asprilio Pacelli
Monument in Saint John's Archcathedral in Warsaw, Poland
Born	1570 Vasciano, Stroncone, Province of Terni, Umbria, Italy
Died	4 May 1623 (aged 52–53) Warsaw
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Composer
Style	Baroque

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 boy chorister at Cappella Giulia. 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 the 1st of 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 chapel in Europe. He remained at that position until his death.

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.

External link

Glinski: ‘Asprilio Pacelli e i suoi madrigali’: Opera omnia, Rome, 1947