Giuseppe Corsi

Giuseppe Corsi Evangelisti better known as Gioseppe Corso Celani or Giuseppe Corsi da Celano, was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. He was mainly active at Rome, where he was Maestro di cappella. He was the teacher of Giacomo Antonio Perti and Petronio Franceschini.

Biography

A student in Rome at the Jesuit fathers under the guidance of Giacomo Carissimi, he was active as an outstanding Maestro in Gallese, Città di Castello, Naples, Rome, Loreto, Ancona and Parma. Accused by the Inquisition for having "deflowered" a spinster, he was tortured and imprisoned in Rome for a few years on the orders of Pope Innocent XI in the Albornoz fortress of Narni.

Works by Giuseppe Corsi da Celano, cataloged by Giovanni Tribuzio in 2014, are 83:

Raoul Meloncelli, Corsi, Giuseppe , in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. XXIX, 1983.
Beatrice Barazzoni, Un esempio di cappella di corte. la cappella musicale dei duchi Farnese a Parma e l’opera dimenticata di Giuseppe Corsi, in Barocco Padano 1, edited by Alberto Colzani, Andrea Luppi and Maurizio Padoan, Como, Antiquae Musicae Italicae Studiosi, 2002, pp. 381–406.
Eleonora Simi Bonini, Alcuni aspetti della vita di Giuseppe Corsi da Celano, in Musica tra storia e filologia. Studi in onore di Lino Bianchi, edited by Federica Nardacci, Rome, Istituto Italiano per la Storia della Musica, 2010, pp. 547–565.
Galliano Ciliberti, Giovanni Tribuzio, «E nostra guida sia la Stravaganza». Giuseppe Corsi da Celano musicista del Seicento, Bari, Florestano Edizioni, 2014, pp. 290.

Giuseppe Corsi da Celano, La Stravaganza. Cantata per soprano e basso continuo, edited by Davide Gualtieri, Lucca, Libreria Musicale Italiana, 2012. It's an attempt of a critical edition, however, it ignores the sources of Lyon, Paris, Brussels and Cambridge.

Giuseppe Corsi: Mottetti - Cantate, Christophe Carré, Ensemble Labirinto Armonico, Baryton, 2012.
Giuseppe Corsi: Bass Cantatas, Mauro Borgioni, Romabarocca Ensemble, Brilliant Classics, 2022.