Above: a scene from the film The Mission (Roland Joffé, 1986), which depicts the Jesuit Reductions, highlighting the use of music in the missions. Three hundred years ago, on January 2, 1726, Domenico Zipoli died of tuberculosis. A leading composer of his time, he was the most celebrated musician among the Jesuits and a central figure in the musical life of the Reductions of Argentina…
