Andrea Basili

Andrea Basili (Città della Pieve, 16 December 1705 – Loreto, 28 August 1777), was an Italian composer and music theorist. He was father of Francesco Basili.

Andrea Basili painted by Carlo Magini

His teacher was Tommaso Gaffi.[1] He was maestro di capella at Cathedral of San Lorenzo Martire, Tivoli, then Basilica della Santa Casa.

Works
  • Il martirio di Santa Sinforosa e dei sette santi suoi figliuoli nobili Tiburtini (oratorio, libretto di F. A. Lolli, 1737, Tivoli)
  • La Passione di Gesù Cristo (oratorio, 1743, Recanati)
  • Salmi con testo parafrasato in italiano
  • Christus factus est a 4 voci
  • Christus factus est a 5 voci
  • 3 Miserere a 8 voci
  • Miserere a 10 voci
  • Missa breve a 4 voci
  • Beatus vir a 4 voci
  • Confitebor a 4 voci
  • Laetatus a 4 voci
  • Nisi dominus a 4 voci
  • Ave Maria a 4 voci
  • Iustorum animae a 5 voci
  • Kyrie e Gloria a 4 voci
  • Salve regina a 4 voci
  • Fuga in ottava tono plagale sopra l'antifono Veni Sponsa Christi (1740)
  • Litanie a 3 voci
  • Miserere double choir a 8 voci
  • Another 150 sacred works

References
  1. The Art of Partimento: History, Theory, and Practice - Page 23 Giorgio Sanguinetti - 2012 "One student of Pasquini was Tommaso Bernardo Gaffi, who has left us a manuscript treatise on accompaniment, Regole per sonare su la parte.9 Gaffi taught Andrea Basili, author of an Italian counterpart of the Well Tempered Clavier, the Musica universale armonico-pratica...1736"


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