He served in various churches in Rome as maestro di capella and infrequently as an organist. From October 1634 he served for two years at the chapel of St. Mary in
Trastevere; from December 1646 to 1661 he was Kapellmeister of the Patriarchal
Basilica of
St. John Lateran. In 1667, while music director of the Basilica of
San Lorenzo in Damaso, he published a collection, Psalmodia Vespertina, containing
psalms,
Magnificats, and
Marian antiphons. From 1677 until his death, he was chapel master at the papal basilica of
Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, and while there published his valedictory Offertoria (1681). That publication has been linked to
Palestrina's of about a century before.[1] His son Antonio succeeded him in the same position at Santa Maria Maggiore. His wife Eugenia died on 12 March 1683; Foggia died on 8 January 1688 and was buried in the church of
Santa Prassede in Rome.
Works (selection)
Foggia's works were known outside the areas he worked - Italy, Munich and Vienna. For example, while he never worked in France, 7 of Foggia's motets survive in a collection by
Danican Philidor, along with motets by
Carissimi,
Daniel Danielis,
Pierre Robert and
Lully.[2]
^French baroque music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau James R. Anthony - 1978 "Out of 72 petits motets, 32 are by Carissimi, 13 by Daniel Danielis, 7 by Francesco Foggia and 10 each by Robert and Lully."
Carl Fassbender: Francesco Foggia (1604-1688): Untersuchungen zu seinem Leben und zu seinem Motettenschaffen, dissertation. Bonn, 1980
Gunther Morche: Francesco Foggia: Sein Beitrag zur konzertierenden Motette, in: Musica e musicisti nel Lazio, Fondazione Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Palestrina 1998