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Gabriello Puliti
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early baroqueitalianearly music of serbiarenaissance musicRenaissance music of Dalmatia
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Gabriello Puliti, a Franciscan monk and Italian composer and organist, was born in the Tuscan town of Montepulciano around 1580 [some say around 1575] and he died in Istria sometime around 1641 to 1644 [some say 1643]. As a young man, he entered the Conventual Franciscan order. While employed as an organist in various Italian cities (Pontremoli, Piacenza), he published two collections of polyphonic sacral compositions. The geographical position of Koper and Piran, the major towns on the north-eastern coast of the Adriatic sea, in-between the cultural impulses coming from the centre of the Venetian Republic across the sea and the neighbouring Habsburg provinces in the mainland, fostered in the 17th century a highly developed cultural life. Gabriello Puliti became one of the outstanding personalities in the musical life of these towns in the second and third decades of that century. He composed 36 sacred and secular works including a variety of musical forms then in use. From 1604 until his death Puliti lived in Istria, working as an organist in Muggia, Trieste, Koper and Labin, and also spending some time in Franciscan monasteries in Pula and on the island of Pag. Puliti is documented from ca. 1609 to at least 1624 in Piran and Koper. Puliti was a prolific composer. He composed secular madrigals, masquerades, instrumental pieces, masses and other religious music. His four collections of solo motets for soprano or tenor and basso continuo (three of them survived: Pungenti d
