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Benigno Zerafa

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masses, Credo settings, psalms, graduals, offertories, litanies, hymns, sequences, antiphons, Holy Week responsories and motets, was transferred to the archives of the cathedral, where it was professionally catalogued and shelved. One work, a recently discovered Requiem Mass for four voices and organ, is preserved in the Archivio Crypta Sancti Pauli (CSP) at Rabat. The compositions, numbering 148, are divided into two categories – (1) for voices and instruments (104), and (2) for voices and organ (44) – and range, in scoring, from works for eight, five, four, three and two voices, to others for solo voice. "
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Aquilina, F. A short biography of Benigno Zerafa. Eighteenth Century Music (2007), 4: 107-118 "Zerafa’s entire collection of sacred vocal works, with one exception, was discovered in 1969 by the then-curator of the Archives of Mdina, Mgr Rev John Azzopardi. The collection, comprising, among others,
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Joseph Vella Bondin edition of Girolamo Abos, Stabat Mater: p.xv 2003 "Among the students to whom Abos taught either singing or composition or both were composers Antonio Boroni, Giacomo Tritto, Giovanni Paisiello, Piccinni, Giacomo Insanguine, Benigno Zerafa, Domenico Fischietti, Johann Georg
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at Mdina Cathedral in 1744 until 1787, when he retired from the position and was succeeded by his assistant
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St. Paul's Cathedral, Mdina
Girolamo Abos
Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo
Francesco Azopardi
Tölzer Knabenchor
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1726 births
1804 deaths
Maltese composers

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