Tyrolian Musical Treasures 20

Tyrolean Church Music Concert 2001
Sacred Music by Vigilius Blasius Faitelli (1710-1768)
Faitelli was from Bozen. In his youth he was a member of the Bozen parish church choir and soon became well known as a composer. At least his reputation had spread far enough for him to be appointed by the head of the royal religious institution for ladies of rank in Hall as early as 1747 expressly as the composer-in-residence. This institution renowned for its cultivation of music already employed a director of music. At our concerts in the Jesuit church of Hall, Faitelli’s only surviving mass as well as his cycle of 12 offertories op. 3, published in Augsburg in 1754, were performed again for the first time. This glorious mass by Faitelli is preserved under his name in the music archive of the Benedictine Abbey of Ottobeuren. It is worth noting that this work was once published as an arrangement for piano in the complete edition of the works of Pergolesi. It was no longer included in the new catalog of Pergolesi’s works. Formally and stylistically it certainly belongs to the Tyrolean School and is definitely a composition of Faitelli’s.
Faitelli’s most precious musical legacy, however, is his opus 3. The vocal parts have been preserved in the music archive of Stams Monastery and in the music collection of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck. With this compendium of twelve offertories for feast days, most of them grandly conceived, Faitelli created a masterpiece of functional sacred music.

CD 2, Track 21, 1:48
Da mihi virtutem
from "Illustris corona [...]", opus 3