GIOVANNI CARLO MARIA

CLARI  , Italian musical composer, chapel-master at Pistoia, was born at Pisa about the year 1669 . The time of his death is unknown . He was the most celebrated pupil of Colonna, chapel-master of S . Petronio, at Bologna . He became 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 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 melody with contrapuntal learning, were much admired by Cherubini . They appear to have been admired by Handel also, since he did not hesitate to make appropriations from them . Clari composed one opera, Il Savio delirante, produced at Bologna in 1695, and a large quantity of church music, several specimens of which were printed in Novello's Fitzwilliam Music .