Filippo Muscari

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Filippo Muscari (fl. 1670) was a 17th Century Italian composer and musician about whose activities a modest amount of information is available. Documents dated 1670-1671 reveal that he was organist at the third organ, vice maestro di capella and maestro di musica in Messina cathedral. These scant biographical details may be fleshed out from a pasquinade, Paschino di tutti I compositori et musici di Messina del anno 1666,6 a collection of anonymous satirical verse poking fun at musicians in Messina. This suggests that Muscari had for some time been known to his colleagues primarily as a notable drinker, he is presented thus: VII Filippo Muscari Philippo mio da te stesso chieggio Qual opra tua composta che sia bella Se Bacco sonnolente ogni hor ti veggio. Philip, my friend, I ask you withal Which works of your composing might be pleasing, If at all hours I behold you as drowsy Bacchus. Muscari is mentioned by another colleague a few years later, this time less disrespectfully. The violinist and composer Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli, whose eventful life brought him to Messina at the end of the sixties, published a collection of sonatas and capriccios during his time there in 1669, containing works dedicated to local musicians. Among them is a Capriccetto Sesto Il Muscari. In addition to the Sonata a Viola Sola in the Ruffo Notbok, two or three sacred motets and four secular vocal works by Filippo Muscari are preserved in the Cathedral Library in Mdina, Malta. It is not kno

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