Porro, Giovanni Giacomo
Porro, Giovanni Giacomo
Porro, Giovanni Giacomo , Italian organist and composer; b. Lugano, c. 1590; d. Munich, Sept. 1656. He was organist to the Duke of Savoy at the Turin court (1618–23), and then went to Rome, where he was first named maestro di cappella of S. Lorenzo in Damaso. From 1626 to 1630 he deputized as organist at St. Peter’s, and then was Frescobaldi’s substitute there from 1630 to 1633. In 1635 he was made vice-Kapellmeister at the Bavarian court in Munich, and shortly thereafter he was named its Kapellmeister. He composed a vast amount of sacred music amounting to some 900 works, including 187 Psalms and 208 antiphons. He also wrote operas and some 200 madrigals. Almost of all of his music is lost.
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