Editing Giacomo Carissimi (section)

==Biography==
Carissimi's exact birthdate is not known, but it was probably in 1604 or 1605 in [[Marino, Italy|Marino]] near [[Rome]], Italy. Of his early life almost nothing is known. Giacomo's parents, Amico (1548–1633, a cooper by trade) and Livia (1565–1622), were married on 14 May 1595 and had four daughters and two sons; Giacomo was the youngest.

Nothing is known of his early musical training. His first known appointments were at [[Tivoli Cathedral]], under the maestri di cappella Aurelio Briganti Colonna, Alessandro Capece and [[Francesco Manelli]]; from October 1623 he sang in the choir, and from October 1624 to October 1627 he was the organist. In 1628 Carissimi moved north to [[Assisi]], as [[Kapellmeister|maestro di cappella (chapel master)]] at the [[Assisi Cathedral|Cathedral of San Rufino]].<ref name="Grove" /> In 1628 he obtained the same position at the [[Sant'Apollinare, Rome|church of Sant'Apollinare]] belonging to the [[Collegium Germanicum]] in Rome, which he held until his death.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} This was despite his receiving several offers to work in very prominent establishments, including an offer to take over from [[Claudio Monteverdi]] at [[San Marco di Venezia]] in [[Venice]]. In 1637 he was ordained a [[Priesthood (Catholic Church)|priest]].

In 1656 [[Christina of Sweden]], who was then living in Rome, appointed Carissimi as her ''maestro di cappella del concerto di camera''. [[Lars Englund]] of [[Uppsala University]] has hypothesized  that Christina’s early involvement with Carissimi's music, and other church music from Rome, "was part of a deliberate self-transformation, from a ruling Lutheran regent to a Catholic Queen without a land."<ref>[http://www.isvroma.it/public/New/Italiano/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=331&Itemid=120 "Seminari in lingua inglese 2019: Lars Berglund (Professor at the Department of Musicology, Uppsala University) presents his ongoing research ''Queen Christina and Giacomo Carissimi: From Curiosity to Musical Patronage'' Svenska Institutet i Rom/ Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici a Roma] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130144551/http://www.isvroma.it/public/New/Italiano/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=331&Itemid=120 |date=2021-11-30 }} access date 4 May 2021</ref>

Carissimi seems to have never left Italy at all during his entire lifetime. He died in 1674 in Rome.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

Carissimi's successor as ''maestro di cappella'' at the Collegium Germanicum in 1686 described him as tall, thin, very frugal in his domestic affairs, with very noble manners towards his friends and acquaintances, and prone to melancholy.<ref>Sorini, Simone. ''Gli Oratori Latini di Giacomo Carissimi: Jephte e Jonas''</ref>{{full citation needed|date=February 2012}}