Giacomo Carissimi, Italian priest and composer (born 1605)

Giacomo Carissimi

Italian composer (1605–1674)

(Gian) Giacomo Carissimi was an Italian composer and music teacher. He is one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque or, more accurately, the Roman School of music. Carissimi established the characteristic features of the Latin oratorio and was a prolific composer…