Tommaso Bernardo Gaffi
Also recorded as Tommaso Bernardo Caffi
Tommaso Bernardo Gaffi
- Born
- 1667 · Rome.
- Died
- 1744 · Rome.
- Occupation
- composer
- Fields
- opera
- Movements
- Baroque music
- Teachers
- Bernardo Pasquini
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Tommaso Bernardo Gaffi (14 December 1667 – 11 February 1744) was a composer, harpsichordist and organist.
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Biography
Training under Bernardo Pasquini is recorded. Andrea Basili is recorded as having studied under Tommaso Bernardo Gaffi. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera.
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- 1.The Gramophone 2004 "Tommaso Bernardo Gaffi (1667-1744) spent his life in Rome. He was a pupil of Pasquini, whom he succeeded as organist of the churches of Santa Maria Maggiore and ... "
- 2.The Art of Partimento: History, Theory, and Practice - Page 23 Giorgio Sanguinetti - 2012 "One student of Pasquini was Tommaso Bernardo Gaffi, who has left us a manuscript treatise on accompaniment, Regole per sonare su la parte.9 Gaffi taught Andrea Basili, author of an Italian counterpart of the Well Tempered Clavier, the Musica universale armonico-pratica...1736"
- 3.Gramophone - Volume 82 Page 87 2004 "Arnaldo Morelli's booklet-note tells us that Tommaso Bernardo Gaffi (1667- 1744) spent his life in Rome. He was a pupil of Pasquini, ... Like his master, he enjoyed the patronage of the cardinals Ottoboni and Pamphili. He wrote eight oratorios "
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