About Francesco Antonio Calegari
Lived 1656 – 1742 (aged 85–86). Francesco Antonio Calegari was an Italian composer.
Father Francesco Antonio Calegari (died 1742) was an Italian baroque music theorist, composer and priest. Calegari was maestro di cappella at Basilica of Santa Maria dei Frari, Venice in 1705, and at the Basilica del Santo, Padua in the 1720s. Several manuscript copies of his treatise on consonance and dissonance survive.
The Italian oratorio La risurrezione di Lazzaro 1779, recorded under Filippo Maria Bressan in 2000, is by Antonio Calegari Another Calegari from Padua was Giuseppe Calegari, composer of a Betulia liberata (1771).
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Italian baroque music theorist, composer and priest
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Francesco Antonio Calegari was born in 1656 in Venice.
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Francesco Antonio Calegari died in 1742 in Venice.
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