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GIUSEPPE BAINI (1775-1844)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 223 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GIUSEPPE

BAINI (1775-1844)  ,
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Italian priest, musical critic and composer of church
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music, was born at Rome on the 21st of
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October 1775 . He was instructed in composition by his
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uncle, Lorenzo Baini, and afterwards by G . Jannaconi . In 1814 he was appointed musical director to the choir of the pontifical
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chapel, to which he had as early as 1802 gained
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admission in virtue of his
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fine bass voice . His compositions, of which very few have been published, were very favourable specimens of the severe ecclesiastical style; one in particular, a ten-
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part Miserere, composed for
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Holy Week in 1821 by order of Pope
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Pius VII., has taken a permanent place in the services of the Sistine chapel during Passion Week . Baini held a higher place, however, as a musical critic and historian than as a composer, and his
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Life of Palestrina (Memorie storico-critiche della vita e delle ' opere di Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 1828) ranks as one of the best
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works of its class . The phrase Il Principe della Musica, which has become finally associated with the name of Palestrina, originates with this biography . Giuseppe Baini died on the 21st of May 1844 in Rome .

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