Silvestro Durante Explained

Silvestro Durante (died 1672) was an Italian church musician and composer.

Durante was a student of the composer Giacomo Carissimi.^[1] From 1645 to 1662 he was maestro di cappella of the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome,^[2] although in December 1637 he was already referred to as the "maestro" of church music at the Basilica,^[3] and in 1664 he was still called maestro di capella.^[4]

Some of Durante's works are in the Düben collection in the Uppsala University Library.

Notes and References

1. http://www.consortiumcarissimi.it/index_files/Page962.htm{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
2. Beekman C. Cannon: Music in the Archives of the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere, Acta Musicologica, Vol. 41, Fasc. 3/4 (Jul.-Dec., 1969), pp. 199-212
3. Graham Dixon: The Cappella of S. Maria in Trastevere (1605-45): An Archival Study, Music & Letters, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Jan., 1981), pp. 30-40
4. http://www2.musik.uu.se/duben/displayFacsimile.php?Select_Path=vmhs019,017_p04_01r.jpg Scanned image from the Düben database