Annibale Orgas Explained

Annibale Orgas (c. 1585–1629) was an Italian composer. He was first a boy soprano at the Collegium Germanicum, then from 1607 to 1610 trained to be a deacon at the Seminario Romano. He returned to the Collegium as maestro di cappella, in Rome, and then in 1619 left Italy to take up the post of maestro di cappella at Wawel Cathedral, Kraków.^[1]

Works, editions and recordings

• Sacrarum cantionum liber primus (though there never was a second book) Venice 1619
• Recording of motet Omnes Gentes by St John's College, Cambridge conductor George Guest^[2]

Notes and References

1. Companion to Baroque Music p183 Julie Anne Sadie - 1998 Orgas, Annibale (c.1585–1629). Italian musician who spent the last ten years of his life in Kraków.
2. Meridian Records 1988. with music by Paolo Quagliati (1555–1628), Agostino Agazzari (1578–1640), Abundio Antonelli, Felice Anerio etc.