no image
Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Orazio Benevoli
Person · male · Papal States · Rome · born 1605 · died 1672 · recording since 1996
Italian composer (1605-1672)
streamingdatabasedatabasedatabase
Listen on SpotifyYouTube Music
Also known as Orazio Benevolo · オラツィオ・ベネヴォリ
Timeline
9 events▣ Album 6◦ Birth 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1
1600s
1670s
1990s
· Debut release
Debut release: Missa Azzolina and Other Sacred Music
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
source: musicbrainz
2010s
2020s
Biography
English biography375 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1350387973
Biography
Orazio Benevoli or Benevolo (19 April 1605 – 17 June 1672) was a Franco-Italian composer of large scaled polychoral sacred choral works (e.g., one work featured forty-eight vocal and instrumental lines) of the middle Baroque era.
Biography
He was born in Rome to a French baker and confectioner, Robert Venouot or Vénevot, whose name was Italianized to Benevolo. Benevoli was a choirboy at San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome (1617–23). He later assumed posts as maestro di cappella at Santa Maria in Trastevere (from 1624), Santo Spirito in Sassia (from 1630), and his old church San Luigi dei Francesi from 1638. Benevoli served as Kapellmeister in the court of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria from 1644 to 1646. Benevoli returned to Rome in 1646, where he remained for the rest of his life as choirmaster at both Santa Maria Maggiore and the Cappella Giulia of St. Peter's Basilica. He was made Guardiano of the Vatican's Congregazione di Santa Cecilia in the following three years of 1654, 1665 and 1667.
His pupils included Ercole Bernabei, Antimo Liberati and Paolo Lorenzani. (See: List of music students by teacher: A to B#Orazio Benevoli.)
Benevoli composed Masses, motets, Magnificats, and other sacred vocal works. Much of his fame as a composer has rested largely on his supposed composition of the fifty-three part Missa Salisburgensis, which musicologists long believed was written by Benevoli in Salzburg Cathedral in 1628. Nevertheless, external and internal evidence subsequently demonstrated that the Mass is in fact the work of composer Heinrich Ignaz Biber, and that it dates not from 1628 but from 1682.
Works, editions and recordings
Benevoli's sacred compositions frequently make use of four or more choirs. Many of Benevoli's works are massive and in the Colossal Baroque style. Sixteen masses for 8 to 16 voices survive.
Little of the music of Benevoli has been performed or recorded in modern times. However, the early music group I Fagiolini, under the direction of Robert Hollingworth, have released three recordings of Benevoli's multi-choir masses
Orazio Benevolo - Sacred Music - Missa Azzolina Magnificat Dixit Dominus, Le Concert Spirituel (Niquet). Naxos (1996)
Missa Tira Corda a 16, Tölzer Knabenchor (Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden) (2010)
Mass for Four Choirs, I Fagiolini (Coro, 2023 & 2024)
Missa Si Deus pro nobis a 16, RIAS Kammerchor (2024)
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 | 12 | 64.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 6 | 79.7th |
| Studio albums | 6 | 86.1th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 9 | 85.5th |
| Recording span (years) | -324 | 1.4th |
| Genres | 2 | 74th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (6 release groups · 6 studio albums)
Albums · 6
Missa Azzolina and Other Sacred Music
1996 · studio album
Search SpotifySearch YouTube Music
Tracklist · 11 tracks · 51:43
1Dixit Dominus4:252Lætatus Sum4:593Miserere4:494Magnificat8:515Missa Azzolina: Kyrie1:536Missa Azzolina: Gloria2:147Missa Azzolina: Kyrie2:088Missa Azzolina: Gloria6:439Missa Azzolina: Credo11:3510Missa Azzolina: Sanctus1:5911Missa Azzolina: Agnus Dei2:07Missa "In Angvstia Pestilentiae"
2018 · studio album
Search SpotifySearch YouTube Music
Tracklist · 19 tracks · 56:08
1Introito. Terribilis Est Locus Iste (Cantus Planus)2:332Kyrie (Missa "In Angvstia Pestilentiae")6:283Gloria (Missa "In Angvstia Pestilentiae")5:154Colletta. Deus Qui Nobus (Cantus Planus)1:015Epistola. Apocalisse, 21: 2-5 (Cantus Planus)1:166Canzon Dopo La Pistola (Dai Fiori Musicali, Messa Della Domenica)2:207Vangelo. Lica, 19: 1-10 (Cantus Planus)2:228Credo (Missa "In Angvstia Pestilentiae")11:059Offertorio. Domine Deus In Simplicitate (Cantus Planus)1:2410Capriccio Sopra La Girolmeta (Fiori Musicali)2:4311Prefazio Festivo (Cantus Planus)2:2312Sancus (Missa "In Angvstia Pestilentiae")2:0513Intonazione Cromatica Del IV Tono4:1114Pater Nester (Cantus Planus)1:3215Pax Domini (Cantus Planus)0:2916Agnus Dei (Missa "In Angvstia Pestilentiae")2:4517Communio. Domus Mea (Cantus Planus)1:1018Ricercare XIV4:2019Ite Missa Est (Cantus Planus)0:46Missa si Deus pro nobis / Magnificat
2018 · studio album
Search SpotifySearch YouTube Music
Tracklist · 15 tracks · 1:03:51
1Aeterna Christi munera et martyrum victorias1:332Cantate Domino, SV 2931:443Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci: Kyrie4:444Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci: Christe2:585Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci: Kyrie II3:156Mottetorum I: Beata es, virgo Maria1:517Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci: Gloria8:038Ne avertas faciem tuam a puero tuo1:169Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci: Credo13:4910Canzon vigesimanona2:3711Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci: Sanctus1:4712Benedictus qui venit in nomine domini0:4913Regna terrae3:5114Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci: Agnus Dei4:5315Magnificat a 16 voci10:412023 · studio album
Search SpotifySearch YouTube Music
Tracklist · 10 tracks · 58:39
1Tu es Petrus a66:062Missa Tu es Petrus: I. Kyrie5:083Missa Tu es Petrus: II. Gloria8:054Domine, ne in furore tuo5:345Missa Tu es Petrus: III. Credo12:446Venite gentes4:327Missa Tu es Petrus: IV. Sanctus2:078Missa Tu es Petrus: V. Agnus Dei2:119Ad mensam dulcissimi6:5110Justus ut palma5:212024 · studio album
Search SpotifySearch YouTube Music
Tracklist · 10 tracks · 1:10:11
1Missa Benevola: I. Kyrie I2:182Missa Benevola: II. Christe1:443Missa Benevola: III. Kyrie II2:484Missa Benevola: IV. Gloria7:125Paratum, cor meum5:316Missa Benevola: V. Credo13:237Super flumina Babylonis8:548Missa Benevola: VI. Sanctus2:259Missa Benevola: VII. Agnus Dei3:1710Historia di Jephte22:39Missae Angelus Domini & Dum Complerentur
2026 · studio album
Search SpotifySearch YouTube Music
Tracklist · 12 tracks · 1:06:29
1Plorabo die ac nocte6:342Missa Angelus Domini: I. Kyrie4:553Missa Angelus Domini: II. Gloria6:074Missa Angelus Domini: III. Credo9:595Missa Angelus Domini: IV. Sanctus2:056Missa Angelus Domini: V. Agnus Dei2:267Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes5:038Missa Dum complerentur: I. Kyrie6:069Missa Dum complerentur: II. Gloria7:1110Missa Dum complerentur: III. Credo11:3211Missa Dum complerentur: IV. Sanctus1:5912Missa Dum complerentur: V. Agnus Dei2:32
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Orazio Benevoli head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 12 | 64.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 6 | 79.7th |
| Studio albums | 6 | 86.1th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 9 | 85.5th |
| Recording span (years) | -324 | 1.4th |
| Genres | 2 | 74th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
aliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8255876e-1830-49e0-ace6-df9bbcf34829discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8255876e-1830-49e0-ace6-df9bbcf34829core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1228351seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orazio_Benevolibiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orazio_Benevoli
Why this artist is in the database
- List of composers by name
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: no portrait (not displayed: the licence credit is missing)
Wikidata: Q1228351 · MusicBrainz: 8255876e-1830-49e0-ace6-df9bbcf34829