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Bernardo Storace
Person · male · born 1637 · died 1707 · recording since 2021
Italian composer
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Also known as Бернардо Стораче
Timeline
4 events◦ Birth 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1▣ Album 1
1630s
1700s
2020s
· Debut release
Debut release: Complete Harpsichord and Organ Music
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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Biography
English biography276 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1350364351
Biography
Bernardo Storace (fl. 1664) was an Italian composer. Almost nothing is known about his life; his only surviving collection of music contains numerous variation sets and represents a transitory stage between the time of Girolamo Frescobaldi and that of Bernardo Pasquini.
Life
Very little is known about his life, except that in 1664 he served as Vice-Maestro di cappella to the senate of Messina. This fact is mentioned on the title page of Selva di varie compositioni d'intavolatura per cimbalo ed organo, the single surviving collection of Storace's music, which is also the only source of information on the composer. Messina was twice devastated by earthquakes, in 1783 and in 1908, so archival research is impossible. Given that Selva di varie compositioni was published in Venice and the music is stylistically somewhat more related to that of northern Italian composers, it is possible that Storace was originally from the north of Italy.
List of works
Selva di varie compositioni contains the following works (listed here in the original order):
Three sets of variations on the Passo e mezzo:
Capriccio sopra il Passo e Mezzo
Passo e Mezzo
Altro Passo e Mezzo
Variations on the Romanesca
Variations on the Spagnoletta (Aria sopra la Spagnoletta)
Variations on the Monica
Variations on the Ruggiero (Capriccio sopra Ruggiero)
Variations on the Cinque passi (Partita sopra il Cinque passi)
Variations on the Folia (Follia)
Four passacaglias:
Passagagli sopra A la mi re
Passagagli sopra C sol fa ut
Passagagli sopra D sol re per ♯
Passagagli sopra Fe fa ut per ♭
Chaconne (Ciaccona)
Variations on the Balletto
Ballo della Battaglia
Two correntes
Two Toccata e canzon pairs
Two ricercars:
Ricercar
Ricercar di legature
Pastorale
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 9 | 54.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 3 | 77.1th |
| Studio albums | 3 | 80.9th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 4 | 75.9th |
| Recording span (years) | -314 | 1.6th |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (3 release groups · 3 studio albums)
Albums · 3
Complete Harpsichord and Organ Music
2021 · studio album
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Tracklist · 23 tracks · 2:18:23
1Capriccio sopra il passo e mezzo in d major7:382Passo e Mezzo8:013Altro passo e Mezzo7:304Romanesca6:075Aria sopra la Spagnoletta4:376Monica4:317Capriccio sopra Ruggiero3:418Partite sopra il cinque Passi5:359Follia4:5110Passagagli sopra A la mi re10:0711Passagagli sopra C sol fa ut per ♭8:1512Passagagli sopra D sol re per ♯12:5313Passagagli Fe fa ut per ♭5:5514Ciaccona6:5115Balletto2:3416Ballo della Battaglia2:4617Corrente in sol1:3018Corrente in mi2:0819Toccata e Canzon in sol4:3020Toccata e Canzon in fa4:2921Recercar7:4922Recercar di ligature4:4423Pastorale11:21— · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 1:12:39
1Ciaccona (Harpsichord)6:122Passagagli sopra f (Harpsichord)6:183Toccata in F (Organ)4:334Romanesca (Organ)6:585Balletto (Harpsichord)2:236Follia (Harpsichord)4:297Ballo della Battaglia (Organ)2:188Ruggiero (Organ)5:299Passagagli sopra c (Harpsichord)7:1610Toccata in G (Organ)4:2911Recercar in e (Organ)4:1912Spagnoletta (Harpsichord)4:2413Partite sopra Il cinque passi (Harpsichord)4:1714Passagagli sopra c (Organ)9:14— · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 1:14:28
1Selva di Varie Compositioni - Venezia, 1664 - Balletto2:102Selva di Varie Compositioni - Venezia, 1664 - Passagagli sopra Fe fa ut per b5:483Selva di Varie Compositioni - Venezia, 1664 - Ciaccona5:354Selva di Varie Compositioni - Venezia, 1664 - Corrente1:345Selva di Varie Compositioni - Venezia, 1664 - Ballo della Battaglia2:196Selva di Varie Compositioni - Venezia, 1664 - Romanesca6:487Selva di Varie Compositioni - Venezia, 1664 - Aria sopra la Spagnoletta7:198Selva di Varie Compositioni - Venezia, 1664 - Passagagli sopra D sol re per #10:599Selva di Varie Compositioni - Venezia, 1664 - Corrente1:5810Selva di Varie Compositioni - Venezia, 1664 - Recercar di legature4:1611Selva di Varie Compositioni - Venezia, 1664 - Toccata & Canzon3:5212Selva di Varie Compositioni - Venezia, 1664 - Pastorale11:0813Selva di Varie Compositioni - Venezia, 1664 - Recercar6:2714Selva di Varie Compositioni - Venezia, 1664 - Toccata & Canzon4:15
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Bernardo Storace head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 9 | 54.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 3 | 77.1th |
| Studio albums | 3 | 80.9th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 4 | 75.9th |
| Recording span (years) | -314 | 1.6th |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
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https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3b34ca80-9ddc-4258-b99c-bf90355ad05bcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q823047seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_Storacebiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_Storace
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Wikidata: Q823047 · MusicBrainz: 3b34ca80-9ddc-4258-b99c-bf90355ad05b