Michèle Dévérité - Giovanni Maria Trabaci: Clavicembalo Napoletano (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 299 Mb | Total time: 50:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Arion | ARN 68538 | Recorded: 2001
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 299 Mb | Total time: 50:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Arion | ARN 68538 | Recorded: 2001
Giovanni Maria Trabaci was born in Monte Pelusio (Irsina) around 1575, and died in Naples on 31 December 1647. This close contemporary of Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) spent his entire career at Naples. He was engaged as a tenor at SS Annunziata at the age of nineteen, and in 1597 was invited to examine the organ of the Oratorio dei Filippini, whose organist he subsequently became. On 30 October 1601 he was appointed to the prestigious post of organist of the chapel of the Spanish Viceroys of Naples, where he was joined in 1602 by his contemporary Ascanio Mayone, who played the second organ…