Death of the Composer Arcangelo Corelli

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Plaque to Arcangelo Corelli, Pantheon

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The celebrated composer Arcangelo Corelli, one of the giants of Baroque music, died in Rome on January 8th 1713, a few weeks short of his sixtieth birthday.

​Corelli was given the great honour of being interred in the Pantheon, where the plaque notes that he was also a violinist of high renown (LIIRISTI CELEBERRIMO). 

The plaque reads (in translation): God the best and the greatest / To Arcangelo Corelli of Fusignano / Marquis of Ladensburg by favour of Philip Wilhelm, Count Palatine of the Rhine / Prince and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire / Because of his outstanding gifts of intellect and unequalled skill in musical measures /he was exceedingly dear to the Supreme Pontiffs / and an object of wonder in Italy and abroad. / By leave of Clement XI, Supreme and most excellent Pontiff, / Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, Vice Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, / and Protector of France, / for the purpose of committing his name to immortality / undertook to have this monument set up for a violinist of high renown / who had long numbered among his intimate friends. He lived fifty-nine years, ten months, twenty days. / He died on January 8th in the year of Salvation 1713.

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