Domenico Zipoli
1688 — 1726
Domenico Zipoli (1688–1726) was an Italian composer from the Baroque period who worked in Córdoba, in the Viceroyalty of Peru, Spanish Empire. He became a Jesuit in order to work in the Reductions of Paraguay where he taught music among the Guaraní people. He is remembered as the most accomplished musician among Jesuit missionaries.
Adapted from the Wikipedia article on Domenico Zipoli.
From the period sources
Domenico Zipoli served as organist at the Jesuit Church in Rome, and is noted by the Dictionary of Music (1896, 1908) as “one of the most important composers for the clavier before Bach.” His published collection, Sonate d’intavolatura per organo o cembalo, appeared in Rome in 1716 or 1726, according to various sources. This work was divided into two parts, with the first containing pieces such as “Toccate, versi, canzone, offertorio, elevazione, post-communio e pastorale,” and the second offering “Preludi, Allemande, Correnti, Sarabande, Gighe, Gavotte, e Partite,” as detailed in A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900, 1905). A Corrente from one of Zipoli’s Suites, dated to 1685 by Grove’s Dictionary (1906), is highlighted for exhibiting “precisely the same system” of extensive repetition in its formal structure as found in works by Scarlatti, a contemporary of Bach and Handel. Indeed, a “Preludio, Corrente, Sarabanda, and Giga in G minor” by Zipoli was included in E. Pauer’s collection of “Alte Meister” from the 17th and 18th centuries, according to A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1880).