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♫ Recovery project of sheet music by Johann Michael Haydn (1737-1806) and by other neglected composers ♫

Composer: Padre Davide da Bergamo (1791-1863)
Work: Sinfonia in Sib
Software: Sibelius + Instruments samples
World Premiere: Yes
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(Felice Moretti) Padre Davide Maria da Bergamo
(Zanica, 21 January 1791 - Piacenza, 24 July 1863)

Italian priest, organist and composer. He was born in Zanica, not far from Bergamo. A decade later, his family moved to Bergamo, where he studied music with Davide Bianchi from 1806, then with Antonio Gonzales, and finally with Giovanni Simone Mayr. From 1808 to 1818 he was the organist at the parish churches in three small villages in the province of Bergamo; First in Torre Boldone, then, from 1812 to 1814, in Zanica, and finally, from 1 January 1815, in Gandino. Meanwhile, he chose to follow his religious vocation; on 25 July 1818, he entered the Convento dei Frati Minori Osservanti di S. Maria di Campagna in Piacenza. After a year as a novice, he took his solemn vows on 26 July 1819, and he was ordained a priest on 25 October of the same year. He spent his whole life in the monastery in Piacenza, as well as giving many concerts in several places, especially in northern Italy, and he was acclaimed as an organ virtuoso and a skilful improviser. Because of his considerable expertise, the most important organ builders of that time, especially the Serassis, the Bossis and the Lingiardis, often called him to test their new organs. During those years, as part of his ministry he had the specific task of playing the organ in the Basilica of S. Maria di Campagna and of composing organ and vocal music for the services in that impressive church, where the Serassis between 1823 and 1838 constructed a monumental organ, which was designed by Padre Davide himself. This well preserved instrument has distinguishing stops and it is the sound standard for playing Padre Davide's organ music. When that organ was inaugurated, an important collection of organ works, expressly written by Padre Davide for this new instrument, was published by Ricordi. Padre Davide's enormous production amounts to thousands of vocal and organ works, but the composer himself had some of them destroyed. He died in Piacenza on 24 July 1863.

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