Francesco Maria Marini

Francesco Maria Marini (fl. 1637) was an Italian composer of early Baroque music. Associated with the music of San Marino, only a single work of his survives, the 1637 collection Concerti spirituali concertati a 2–7 et con instrumenti, libro 1.^[1][2]

There is little known of Francesco Maria Marini; he lived around 1637.^[1] The frontispiece of his surviving music indicates that he was born in Pesaro.^[2]

He is known to have been music director for the republic of San Marino's most important church.^[1]

Although only a single set of his compositions survive, the British musicologist Jerome Roche remarks "That so few works survive is a matter for regret, since they show a surprisingly competent talent for a comparative outpost such as San Marino, geographically far removed from the centres of composition in the 1630s".^[1]

• Marini, Francesco Maria (31 October 2018). Hunt, Janet E. (ed.). Francesco Maria Marini: Concerti Spirituali, Libro Primo (1637). Motets for Two, Three or Four Voices and Basso Continuo. Framingham: Hunt Music. ISBN 978-0-9962221-6-7.

• Roche, Jerome (2001). "Marini, Francesco Maria". Grove Music Online. Revised by Elizabeth Roche. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.17805. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
• Peretti, Paolo (2008). "Marini, Francesco Maria". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 70. Treccani.

• Roche, Jerome (1984). North Italian Church Music in the Age of Monteverdi. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-316118-4.

• Free scores by Francesco Maria Marini at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)