Composers

Michelangelo Falvetti

Michelangelo Falvetti
29.12.1642 - 1692
Country:Italy
Period:Baroque

Biography

 Michelangelo Falvetti (1642–1692) was an Italian Baroque composer as well as a Catholic priest.

Falvetti was born in Melicuccà in Calabria, Kingdom of Naples on December 29, 1642, but spent most of his life and musical career in the Kingdom of Sicily. In 1670, he became Maestro di cappella in Palermo, and in 1679 founded the 'Unione dei Musici' in that city.[1] In or around 1682 he moved to Messina where he was named Maestro di Cappella del Senato di Messina. Falvetti died in Messina in 1692.

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