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Stefano Fabri
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Stefano Fabri (born ca. 1560 in Orvieto ; died August 28, 1609 in Loreto) was a composer and a conductor of the Cappella Giulia in the successor of Ruggiero Giovanelli . He was the son of Franceso Fabri , the conductor of the Cathedral of Orvieto. He is also the father of Stefano Fabri junior , who then also appeared as Francesco Beretta 's teacher. The son of a Flemish musician named Faber at the Cathedral of Orvieto received his first musical training there as a choirboy (1568-85), also as an organist (1580-81) and trombonist (1582-83). In 1590 he moved to Rome to become Kapellmeister at the German Collegium (Collegium Germanicum). From May 1599 to September 1601 he was the conductor of the Capella Giulia in Rome, where his son later worked. From 1601 to 1607 he accepted a position at the Lateran Basilica . From 1608 until his death he held the position of conductor of the Basilica of the Holy House in Loreto, where he was also buried nearby. He is also mentioned as Maestro of the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi and the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore , in addition to his above-mentioned Occupations in San Pietro, Lateran and Loreto. Possibility of confusion In his work, François-Joseph Fétis mentions a Stephanus Fabrus or Stephan Faber, who in Nuremberg in a print by Kaufmann in 1607 describes himself as Fr. Ludimatore in imperiale civitate Gienga in his Cantionae aliquot sacrae trium vocum. He is not identical to the Stefano Fabri described here, who was described b