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CLARI, GIOVANNI CARLO MARIA

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CLARI, GIOVANNI CARLO MARIA , See also:Italian musical composer, See also:chapel-See also:master at See also:Pistoia, was See also:born at See also:Pisa about the See also:year 1669. The See also:time of his See also:death is unknown. He was the most celebrated See also:pupil of See also:Colonna, chapel-master of S. Petronio, at See also:Bologna. He became See also:maestro di cappella at Pistoia about 1712, at Bologna in 1720, and at Pisa in 1736. He is supposed to have died about 1745. The See also:works by which Clari distinguished himself pre-eminently are his vocal duets and trios, with a basso continuo, published between 1740 and 1747. These compositions, which combine graceful See also:melody with contrapuntal learning, were much admired by See also:Cherubini. They appear to have been admired by See also:Handel also, since he did not hesitate to make appropriations from them. Clari composed one See also:opera, Il Savio delirante, produced at Bologna in 1695, and a large quantity of See also:church See also:music, several specimens of which were printed in See also:Novello's See also:Fitzwilliam Music.

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