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About Giovanni Giacomo Porro
Giovanni Giacomo Porro was an Italian organist and composer; b. Lugano, c. 1590; d. Munich, Sept. 1656. He was organist to the Duke of Savoy at the Turin court (1618–23), and then went to Rome, where he was first named maestro di cappella of S. Lorenzo in Damaso. From 1626 to 1630 he deputized as organist at St. Peter’s, and then was Frescobaldi’s substitute there from 1630 to 1633. In 1635 he was made vice-Kapellmeister at the Bavarian court in Munich, and shortly thereafter he was named its Kapellmeister.
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