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Reverend Armando Pierucci was born in Maiolati
Spontini (Ancona), Italy, on September 3, 1935.
He graduated from the Pontifical Institute of
Sacred Music in Rome, from the Conservatory of Naples, and from the Conservatory
G. Rossini of Pesaro. His majors were organ, conducting, and composing.
He has conducted choirs and given organ recitals in Italy, Greece, Cyprus,
and the Holy Land.
Since 1988, he has been the organist at the Holy
Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Until 1999, he was Chief Editor of the Italian
magazine entitled La
Terra Santa (Holy Land). Presently, he is professor of sacred music
at the Studium Theologicum Jerusolymitanum and Director of the Magnificat
Musical Institute.
From Who is Who
in the Churches in Jerusalem,
E.J., Art Printing
Press. 1998
Reverend Armando Pierucci has composed music
for organ, choir, recorder, accordion, brass, and piano.
They are as follows:
4 Cori su testo di S. Quasimodo (Ediz. Berben);
Callido verde (Ediz. Berben); Missa de Angelis Pacis; Missa Regina Pacis;
Missa Magnificabant Omnes; Missa Regina Palestinae; Sonata for Organ and
Choir; The Hymnal; Zahr Er-Rahm (fifteen songs for voice and piano); Mathaq
Al-Sharq — A Flavor of the East (for piano by four hands), Via
Crucis (A Cantata for Soloists, Choir, and Organ), De
Profundis (A Cantata for Mezzo-soprano, Choir, String Orchestra, and
Flute)
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