Biography
Giovanni Salvatore (ca.1620–ca.1688) was a Neapolitan composer and organist.
Salvatore was born in Castelvenere. He is thought to have studied under Giovanni Maria Sabino and Erasmo di Bartolo at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini, Naples in Naples. He was first organist for the church of Santi Severino e Sossio, then maestro di cappella at San Lorenzo Maggiore (Naples). From 1662 to 1673 he taught at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini, then moved to be maestro di cappella of the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo. He died in Naples.
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Works:
Requiem - Missa defunctorum
Mass and vespers
Messa della Domenica
Magnificat 5 voices and two violins
Polychoral motets:
Audite coeli for 4 choirs
Song of the three boys - Canticum trium puerorum, for 4 choirs 1657
Confitebor for 2 choirs
Credidi for 4 choirs
Keyboard works[2][3]
Canzoni for Four Viols[4]
Secular arias
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