Benedetto Giacomo Marcello (31 July– 24 July
1739) was an Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher. Born
in Venice, Benedetto Marcello was a member of a noble family and his
compositions are frequently referred to as Patrizio Veneto. Although he was a
music student of Antonio Lotti and Francesco Gasparini, his father wanted
Benedetto to devote himself to law. Marcello composed a variety of music
including considerable church music, oratorios, hundreds of solo cantatas,
duets, sonatas, concertos and sinfonias. Marcello was a younger contemporary of
Antonio Vivaldi in Venice and his instrumental music enjoys a Vivaldian flavor.
As a composer, Marcello was best known in his
lifetime and is now still best remembered for his Estropoetico -armonico
(Venice, 1724–1727), a musical setting for voices, figured bass (a continuo
notation), and occasional solo instruments, of the first fifty Psalms, as
paraphrased in Italian by his friend G. Giustiniani. They were much admired by
Charles Avison, who with John Garth brought out an edition with English words
(London, 1757).
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