Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/B/Bernabei, Ercole

by John Weeks Moore

Bernabei, Ercole, the scholar and successor of Benevoli at St. Peter's at Rome, and instructor of the Abbate Steffani, may be ranked among the greatest masters of harmony in the ancient ecclesiastical style of the seventeenth century. This composer, being invited by the Elector of Bavaria to Munich, about the year 1650, entered into the service of that court, where he continued the rest of his life. A specimen of his works may be seen in Stevens's sacred music.