1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
ANIMUCCIA. GIOVANNI. Italian musical composer, was born at Florence in the last years of the 1 5th century. At the request of St Filippo Neri he composed a number of Laudi, or hymns of praise, to be sung after sermon time, which have given him an accidental prominence in musical history, since their performance in St Filippo's Oratory eventually gave rite (on the disruption of i6th century tcbooU of competition) to tboM early forms of " oratorio " that are not traceable to the Gregorianpolyphonic " Passions." St Fi…
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