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1560 In Music
Events *Innocentio Alberti takes up a position as cornettist at the Este court in Ferrara, following the dissolution of the Accademia degli Elevati in Padua. Publications *Ippolito Chamaterò – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) *Jacob Clemens non Papa – Tenth book of masses: for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously *Claude Goudimel – Fourth book of psalms for four and five voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) * Orlande de Lassus **Fourth book of chansons for five and six voices (Louvain: Pierre Phalèse) **First book of madrigals for four voices (Rome: Valerio Dorico) *Giovanni Paolo Paladino — First book of lute tablature, containing arrangements of pieces by various composers (Lyon: Simon Gorlier) *Francesco Portinaro – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) *Christoph Praetorius – for four voices (Wittenberg: Georg Rhau), a funeral motet for Philip Melanchthon Sacred music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hieronymus Praetorius
Hieronymus Praetorius (10 August 1560 – 27 January 1629) was a Northern German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque whose polychoral motets in 8 to 20 voices are intricate and vividly expressive. Some of his organ music survives in the Visby Orgel-Tabulatur, which dates from 1611. (He was not related to the prolific Michael Praetorius, known as a theorist and for '' Terpsichore'', but the large Praetorius family tree produced many distinguished musicians during the 16th and 17th centuries.) Life He was born in Hamburg and spent most of his life there. He studied organ with his father ( Jacob Praetorius, the elder (1520-1586), also a composer), before moving to Cologne for further study. In 1580 he became organist in Erfurt but remained there only two years. After returning to Hamburg in 1582 he worked with his father as assistant organist at Sankt Jacobi, becoming principal organist in 1586 when his father died, a post he retained until his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1560
Year 1560 ( MDLX) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January 7 – In the Kingdom of Scotland, French troops commanded by Henri Cleutin and Captain Corbeyran de Cardaillac Sarlabous sail across the Firth of Forth from Leith, which they are occupying, and fight with the Lords of the Congregation at Pettycur Bay near Kinghorn. * February 27 – Treaty of Berwick: Terms are agreed upon with the Lords of the Congregation in Scotland, for forces of the Kingdom of England to enter Scotland, to expel French troops defending the Regency of Mary of Guise. * March 7 – A Spanish-led expedition, commanded by Juan de la Cerda, 4th Duke of Medinaceli, overruns the Tunisian island of Djerba. * March 17 – Leaders of the Amboise conspiracy, including Godefroy de Barry, seigneur de La Renaudie, make an unsuccessful attempt to storm the château of Amboise, where the young Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1560 In Music
Events *Innocentio Alberti takes up a position as cornettist at the Este court in Ferrara, following the dissolution of the Accademia degli Elevati in Padua. Publications *Ippolito Chamaterò – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) *Jacob Clemens non Papa – Tenth book of masses: for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously *Claude Goudimel – Fourth book of psalms for four and five voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) * Orlande de Lassus **Fourth book of chansons for five and six voices (Louvain: Pierre Phalèse) **First book of madrigals for four voices (Rome: Valerio Dorico) *Giovanni Paolo Paladino — First book of lute tablature, containing arrangements of pieces by various composers (Lyon: Simon Gorlier) *Francesco Portinaro – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) *Christoph Praetorius – for four voices (Wittenberg: Georg Rhau), a funeral motet for Philip Melanchthon Sacred music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Gombert
Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495 – c. 1560)Atlas, p. 396 was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most famous and influential composers between Josquin des Prez and Palestrina, and best represents the fully developed, complex polyphonic style of this period in music history. Life Details of his early life are sketchy, but he was probably born around 1495 in southern Flanders, probably between Lille and Saint-Omer, possibly in the town of La Gorgue. German writer and music theorist Hermann Finck wrote that Gombert studied with Josquin; this would have been during the renowned composer's retirement in Condé-sur-l'Escaut, sometime between 1515 and 1521.Nugent/Jas, Grove online Gombert was employed by the emperor Charles V as a singer in his court chapel in 1526 and possibly as a composer as well. Most likely he was taken on while Charles was passing through Flanders, for the emperor traveled often, bringing his retinue with him, and picking up new members as h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Antonio Cavazzoni
Marco Antonio Cavazzoni (c. 1490 – c. 1560) was an Italian organist and composer. He was the father of composer Girolamo Cavazzoni. All of his extant music is contained in the print ''Recerchari, motetti, canzoni ..libro primo'', which was published in Venice in 1523. Included are the earliest known ''ricercars''—they are not yet imitative, and are essentially written down improvisations, but there is a considerable amount of thematic development. The rest of the works in the collection are either arrangements of vocal pieces by Cavazzoni or other composers. Their style is firmly rooted in the Renaissance vocal chanson tradition. Published works *2 Ricercari *2 Mottetti: *4 Canzoni: A single piece for keyboard ''Recercada de maca in bologna'', now kept in the parochial archives of Castell’Arquato (Piacenza) in Emilia-Romagna (ms. Musicale n. 2, cc. 5v-6v). References * Apel, Willi. 1972. ''The History of Keyboard Music to 1700''. Translated by Hans Tischler. Indiana Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Bourgeois (composer)
Loys "Louis" Bourgeois (; c. 1510 – 1559) was a French composer and music theory, music theorist of the Renaissance music, Renaissance. He is most famous as one of the main compilers of Calvinism, Calvinist hymn tunes in the middle of the 16th century. One of the most famous melodies in all of Christendom, the tune known as the Old 100th, to which the Protestant doxology is often sung, is commonly attributed to him. Life Knowledge of his early life is sparse. His first publication, some secular chansons, dates from 1539 in Lyon. By 1545 he had gone to Geneva (according to civic records) and become a music teacher there. In 1547 he was granted citizenship in Geneva, and in that same year he also published his first four-voice psalms. In 1549 and 1550 he worked on a collections of metrical psalter, psalm-tunes, most of which were translated by Clément Marot and Théodore de Bèze. The extent to which he was composer, arranger or compiler was not certain, until a long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lodovico Grossi Da Viadana
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (usually Lodovico Viadana, though his family name was Grossi; c. 1560 – 2 May 1627) was an Italian composer, teacher, and Franciscan friar of the Order of Friars Minor Observants. He was the first significant figure to make use of the newly developed technique of figured bass, one of the musical devices which was to define the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras in music. Life He was born in Viadana, a town in the province of Mantua (Italy). According to a document dating from about 150 years after his death, he was a member of the Grossi family but took the name of his birth city, Viadana, when he entered the order of the Minor Observants prior to 1588. Though there is no contemporary evidence, it has been claimed that he studied with Costanzo Porta, becoming choirmaster at the cathedral in Mantua by 1594. In 1597 he went to Rome, and in 1602 he became choirmaster at the cathedral of San Luca in Mantua. He held a succession of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Croce
Giovanni Croce (; also Ioanne a Cruce Clodiensis, Zuanne Chiozotto; 1557 – 15 May 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, of the Venetian School. He was particularly prominent as a madrigalist, one of the few among the Venetians other than Monteverdi and Andrea Gabrieli. Life He was born in Chioggia, a fishing town on the Adriatic coast south of Venice, the same town as Gioseffo Zarlino, and he came to Venice early, becoming a member of the boy's choir at St. Mark's under Zarlino's direction by the time he was eight years old. Zarlino evidently found him in a choir in Chioggia Cathedral, and recruited him for St. Mark's.Arnold, p. 35 Croce may have been a parish priest at the church of Santa Maria Formosa, and he took holy orders in 1585; during this period he also served as a singer at St. Mark's. He evidently maintained some connection, probably as a director of music, with Santa Maria Formosa alongside his duties at St. Mark's. After the death of Zarl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1628 In Music
The year 1628 in music involved some significant events. Events *July 10 – Heinrich Schütz seeks a travel warrant from Johann Georg, Elector of Saxony, to return to Venice to visit Monteverdi and Alessandro Grandi. *November 22 – Girolamo Frescobaldi is given permission by St Peter's Basilica to leave Rome. Published popular music * Carlo Farina ** ** * Melchior Franck ** for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices with basso continuo (Coburg: Johann Forckel for Friedrich Gruner) ** for four, five, and six voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a collection of motets ** for three choirs (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), two wedding motets ** for four and seven voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), two motets *Vinko Jelić ** for one, two, three, and four voices with organ bass, Op. 2 (Strasbourg: Paul Lederz) ** for four voices with organ bass, Op. 3 (Strasbourg: Paul Lederz) *Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – , vol. 1 (Rome: Paolo Masotti) *Carlo Milanuzzi – Sixth book of for solo vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Philips
Peter Philips (also ''Phillipps'', ''Phillips'', ''Pierre Philippe'', ''Pietro Philippi'', ''Petrus Philippus''; ''c.''1560–1628) was an eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest exiled to Flanders. He was one of the greatest keyboard virtuosos of his time, and transcribed or arranged several Italian motets and madrigals by such composers as Lassus, Palestrina, and Giulio Caccini for his instruments. Some of his keyboard works are found in the ''Fitzwilliam Virginal Book''. Philips also wrote many sacred choral works. Life Philips was born in 1560 or 1561, possibly in Devonshire or London. From 1572 to 1578 he began his career as a boy chorister at St Paul's Cathedral in London, under the aegis of the Catholic master of choristers, Sebastian Westcott (died 1582), who had also trained the young William Byrd some twenty years earlier. Philips must have had a close relationship with his master, as he lodged in his house up to the time of Westcote's death, and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Coma
Antonio Coma (1560–1629) was an Italian composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi .... He was born in Cento, Ferrara, and came from a notable family of musicians. He may be the subject of a painting attributed to Guercino.Guercino: poesia e sentimento nella pittura del '600 ed. Denis Mahon, Massimo Pulini - 2003 "Ritratto di Antonio Coma potrebbe essere anche la Figura di compositore, dipinto recentemente segnalato da Massimo Pulini come opera attribuibile a Guercino, e databile intorno agli anni 1618-1620. L'ipotesi può apparire azzardata, ...L'ipotesi di identificare il personaggio del Ritratto di compositore in Antonio Coma (Cento 1 560-1629) ha origine nella compatibilità tra l'età del Coma e quella del ritrattato nella plausibile datazione dell'opera in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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