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Italian composer, one of early masters of oratorio form. Choirmaster
Assisi 1628-1629, Collegio Germanico, Rome, 1629-1674. Oratorios
include Lucifer, Job, Baltazar, Jephte (1650), Judicium Salomonis;
motets, and recitatives (e.g. Abraham and Isaac). Adapted Monteverdi's
operatic innovations to sacred drama. His Missa 'L 'Homme arme' was
last of its kind. In 1656 was appointed choirmaster to Queen Christina
of Sweden when she established her court in Rome after her abdication.
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