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Matteo Messori
Messori
Birth nameMatteo
BornBologna
Genresclassical music
Occupation(s)harpsichordist, organist, clavichordist, conductor
Instrument(s)harpsichord, organ

Matteo Messori (born 23 April 1976 in Bologna, Italy) is a renowned Italian keyboard player (he performs on period instruments including the harpsichord, pipe organ, clavichord and pedal piano), conductor, musicologist and teacher. He founded the early music ensemble Cappella Augustana.

Biography

Matteo Messori was born in Bologna where he studied Organ and Counterpoint, graduating cum laude. He studied Harpsichord with Sergio Vartolo at the Conservatories of Mantua and Venice, graduating again cum laude. He studied also Musicology at the University of Bologna[1].

From 1990 he started to work as a continuo player with the ensemble "I Filomusi". At the same time he undertook an intense soloist activity in Europe and America. In 1998 he won the First Prize at the National Harpsichord Competition "Gianni Gambi" in Pesaro[2]. He won also other prizes, among which the Medaglia Campiani in Mantua.

In 2000 he founded an early music ensemble Cappella Augustana with which he is recording the opera omnia by Heinrich Schütz for the Dutch label Brilliant Classics. He also directed, for the Swedish label Mvsica Rediviva, the first recording dedicated entirely to the sacred music by the Kapellmeister in Dresden and organist at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Vincenzo Albrici (1631-1690/96)[3].

In 2005 he recorded the third part of the Clavierübung by Johann Sebastian Bach, the Schübler Chorales, 8 Preludes and Fugues and the Canonical Variations on five historical central German organs. He recorded also Die Kunst der Fuge, Musikalisches Opfer and the fragmentary Triple Fugue BWV 1080/19 by J. S. Bach, as a soloist on three harpsichords (also in Central German style, with 16' stop) and as a leader of the ensemble Cappella Augustana.

He regularly conducts orchestras and ensembles in Europe (a.o. Capella Cracoviensis, State Chamber Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus, the first Italian stage performance of the Händel oratorio La Bellezza ravveduta with Cappella Augustana[4]), and collaborates with such orchestras as the Wiener Philharmoniker.

In 2010 his study on the 16' harpsichord with pedal harpsichord built by Zacharias Hildebrandt for the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig was published in the Bach-Jahrbuch[5].

He teaches organ and harpsichord at the Bergamo Conservatory.

Selected Discography

  • "Johann Sebastian Bach - Schübler Chorales, 8 Preludes and Fugues" 2 CDs (Brilliant Classics, 94380). 2011
  • "Johann Sebastian Bach - Die Kunst der Fuge, Musikalisches Opfer, Einige canonische Veraenderungen" 3CDs (Brilliant Classics, 94061). 2010
  • "Johann Sebastian Bach - Dritter Theil der Clavierübung" 2 SuperAudio CDs (Brilliant Classics, 92769). 2008
  • "Heinrich Schütz Edition Vol. 4" 5 CDs (Brilliant Classics, 93972). With Cappella Augustana. 2008
  • "Heinrich Schütz Edition Vol. 3" 4 CDs (Brilliant Classics, 92795). With Cappella Augustana. 2005
  • "Heinrich Schütz Edition Vol. 2" 5 CDs (Brilliant Classics, 92440). With Cappella Augustana. 2004
  • "Heinrich Schütz Edition Vol. 1" 5 CDs (Brilliant Classics, 92196). With Cappella Augustana. 2003
  • "Heinrich Schütz - Symphoniae sacrae" SuperAudio CD (Brilliant Classics, 92196). With Cappella Augustana. 2004
  • "Vincenzo Albrici - Concerti sacri" (Mvsica Rediviva, MRCD008). With Cappella Augustana. 2002

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