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| | Giacomo Carissimi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Giacomo Carissimi (baptized April 18, 1605 – January 12, 1674, Rome), was an Italian composer, one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque, or, more accurately, the Roman School of music. |
 | | His exact birthdate is not known, but it was probably in 1604 or 1605 in Marini, near Rome. |
 | | His father was a barrel maker, and at the age of twenty Giacomo became chapel-master at Assisi. |
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