Francesco Maria Marini


Francesco Maria Marini was an Italian composer of early Baroque music. Associated with the music of San Marino, only a single work of his survives, the 1637 collection Concerti spirituali concertati a 2–7 et con instrumenti, libro 1.

Life and career

There is little known of Francesco Maria Marini; he lived around 1637. The frontispiece of his surviving music indicates that he was born in Pesaro.
He is known to have been music director for the republic of San Marino's most important church.

Music

Although only a single set of his compositions survive, the British musicologist Jerome Roche remarks "That so few works survive is a matter for regret, since they show a surprisingly competent talent for a comparative outpost such as San Marino, geographically far removed from the centres of composition in the 1630s".

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