Francesco Brusa

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Francesco Brusa (c. 1700 – after 1768) was known as an organist at the church of San Marco before he began his career as a composer. Towards the end of his life, he was Maestro di Coro at the Incurabili. In Brusa’s collection of church music, the Missa pro Defunctis is his only surviving mass setting, having been written for the Incurabili musicians in 1767. A Wikipedia link, below, provides some information about Brusa. It is in Italian. Beware of the Google translation to English! http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Brusa The below information is from the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians entry for Francesco Brusa: (Giovanni) Francesco Brusa (b Venice, c1700; d after 1768) Because his known works fall into two groups 30 years apart, some writers have postulated the existence of an older and a younger composer of that name; the theory cannot be wholly dismissed on the sparse evidence available. However, the statement that he studied with Monferrato, who died in 1685, appears to be based on an oversight by Fantoni. Brusa’s name first appears in connection with his four operas of 1724-6 On 22 December 1726 he was made organista del palchetto at St Mark’s, where he was succeeded on 24 July 1740 by Angelo da Cortona. Quadrio, writing a little later, mentioned Brusa as having flourished about 1724, which strengthens the impression that he had stopped composing. In reminiscences set down in the 1760s, Goldoni mentioned a serenade set to music in 1732 by ‘Sig.

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