{"id":2015,"date":"2019-05-11T12:23:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T16:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2019-05-11T12:28:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T16:28:05","slug":"pray-for-the-soul-of-the-great-kapellmeister-domenico-cardinal-bartolucci-whom-god-called-to-himself-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/2019\/05\/pray-for-the-soul-of-the-great-kapellmeister-domenico-cardinal-bartolucci-whom-god-called-to-himself-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Pray for the Soul of The Great Kapellmeister Domenico Cardinal Bartolucci, whom God called to Himself in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Vatican) The Church musician Domenico Cardinal Bartoluccci is dead, who was born near Florence in 1917, the Cardinal was \u00c2\u00a0head of the choir of the Sistine Chapel\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0from 1956 to 1997.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0For decades, he forged the Church music at the papal liturgies.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0In 2009, he gave a well receivedd interview about the liturgy.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0Cardinal Bartolucci was one of the priests of the Catholic Church, despite the liturgical reform of 1969\/1970, who still celebrated in the Old Rite and it steadfastly clung to it till the end of his life.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0In\u00c2\u00a02010 Pope Benedict XVI elevated him to<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0cardinal.<\/span><\/div>\n
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At 14, he composed his first motets, oratorios and cantatas, was organist of the church of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, and was ordained a priest in 1939 by Cardinal Elia Dalla Costa.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0After a period as Director of Music in Florence, church music studies in Rome and in the pastoral care of a parish priest in his home diocese Montefoscoli, his calling was to Rome.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0Bartolucci was first deputy choirmaster at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, from 1947, he was \u00c2\u00a0choirmaster at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore and from 1952 deputy director of the Sistine Chapel Choir at St. Peter’s Basilica.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0 In\u00c2\u00a01956 Pope Pius XII appointed him, f<\/span>inally, as the choir director of the famous choir that sings in the celebrations of the Pope.<\/span><\/div>\n

Keeper of the Church Musical Heritage of the West<\/span><\/h3>\n
The priest, composer, choir conductor and orchestra director is one of the most famous musicians of the 20th <\/span>\u00c2\u00a0Century Church.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0For his personal merits Pope Benedict XVI elevated him.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0on 20<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0November 2010, to the rank of Cardinal.<\/span>The award for Domenico Bartolucci was a precise signal by Benedict XVI.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0as part of his efforts to restore the consciousness of the sacredness of the liturgy.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0The Church Music is a not insignificant part of it.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0Besides the maintenance of Gregorian chant, Bartolucci was mainly a custodian of the church musical work of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0In general, he saw his role as the preservation and maintenance of the large church musical heritage of the West.<\/span><\/div>\n
On the occasion of his 85th<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0Birthday, Paul Cardinal Poupard, then President of the Pontifical Council for Culture said: “Maestro Bartolucci has succeeded as a real Christian artist, making perceptible the Gospel of the risen Christ with his music and his work as a choirmaster in an engaging and fascinating way the world of spirit, and the message of the Christian faith. “<\/span><\/div>\n

Cardinal Bartolucci Celebrated Only in the Old Rite in His LIfe<\/span><\/h3>\n
His personal attitude played a role in the ’90s and led to his dismissal as head of the Sistine Chapel Choir.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0A decision that was frowned upon by the then Prefect of the Congregation, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0As Pope, he was \u00c2\u00a0demonstratively responsible for the rehabilitation Bartoluccis, especially with the 2010 survey in the cardinal’s rank.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0The appointment of a cardinal priest, who personally rejected the liturgical reform, ensured some discontent in Church circles, which was mitigated by the fact that Monsignor Bartolucci was already 93 years old and no longer entitled to elect a pope.<\/span><\/div>\n
In 2009 Domenico Bartolucci, then not cardinal, gave an interview which received international attention.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0On the occasion of his death, we would like to call this interview in remembrance and recommend to read:\u00c2\u00a0“<\/a>What do we do with liturgists who do not know the theology?” – Interview with Msgr Domenico Bartolucci the em.<\/a><\/span>\u00c2\u00a0Choirmaster of the Sistine Chapel\u00c2\u00a0.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Text: Giuseppe Nardi<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Vatican) The Church musician Domenico Cardinal Bartoluccci is dead, who was born near Florence in 1917, the Cardinal was \u00c2\u00a0head of the choir of the Sistine Chapel\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0from 1956 to 1997.\u00c2\u00a0For decades, he forged the Church music at the papal liturgies.\u00c2\u00a0In 2009, he gave a well receivedd interview about the liturgy.\u00c2\u00a0Cardinal Bartolucci was one of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}