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Galuppi, Baldassare

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GALUPPI, Baldassare (b. 18 October, 1706, island of Buranello, nr. Venice; d. 3 January, 1785, Venice) — A student of Antonio Lotti, Galuppi became a prominent Venetian composer of opera and sacred works, serving as choirmaster at St. Mark Cathedal and the director of the “Incurabili” Conservatory in Venice. Invited by Empress Catherine the Great to the court at St. Petersburg, he arrived there in on 22 September 1765. For the empress's court, Galuppi composed new works, both operatic and liturgical, and led performances of many others, giving weekly recitals at the harpsichord and sometimes conducting orchestral concerts. He was greatly impressed by the court choir—the Imperial Court Kapella. He is reported to have exclaimed, "I'd never heard such a magnificent choir in Italy." His stay in St. Petersburg, however, was short-lived. In 1768, as had been agreed, he returned to Venice. While in St. Petersbrug, Galuppi taught Dmitry Bortniansky. Seven of his compositions on Orthodox liturgical texts were published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; all of them — three sacred concertos and settings of other liturgical hymns — are composed in the prevailing style of Roman Catholic church music of the time, with alternating sections of homophony and imitative polyphony.

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Uslyshit tia Gospod'

The Lord will hear thee

Sacred concerto

SATB

St. Petersburg, 1817-1818

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Ga005

Vsi iazytsy, vospleshchite

All nations, clap your hands

Sacred concerto

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Mentioned in A. V. Lebedeva-Emelina, "Galuppi," entry in Pravoslavnaia entsiklopediia, v. 10, pp. 378-379

Ga010

Zadostoinik na Preobrazhenie Gospodne

Hymn to the Mother of God for the Transfiguration of the Lord

Magnify... Thy giving birth was without corruption

Velichai… Rozhdestvo tvoe netlenno yavisia

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Mentioned in A. V. Lebedeva-Emelina, "Galuppi," entry in Pravoslavnaia entsiklopediia, v. 10, pp. 378-379

Ga009

Zadostoinik na Voznesenie Gospodne

Hymn to the Mother of God for the Ascension of the Lord

Magnify... We magnify thee, the Mother of God

Velichai… Tia pache uma

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Mentioned in A. V. Lebedeva-Emelina, "Galuppi," entry in Pravoslavnaia entsiklopediia, v. 10, pp. 378-379

Ga008