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Ghirlanda Sacra
''Ghirlanda sacra scielta da diversi eccellentissimi compositori de varii motetti à voce sola'' (Venice, 1625) is a compilation of 44 single-voice motets in the new style assembled by Leonardo Simonetti. Simonetti was a chorister in the Cappella Marciana, and placed his master Claudio Monteverdi at the head of the collection with four pieces, following it with other composers from the area of Venice and Veneto. A second printing followed in 1636. Composers The compositions in the 1625 publication, in order, are by: Claudio Monteverdi Maestro di Cappella della Serenissima Signoria di Venezia (4 pieces), Giovanni Priuli Maestro di Capella di S. M. C. (2 pieces), Giovanni Rovetta, Alessandro Grandi (4 pieces), Giovanni Pietro Berti organist of Saint Mark's in Venice, Giovanni Paolo Capriolo Abbate in Candiana (2 pieces), Giacomo Finetti Maestro di Cappella nella gran Casa di Venezia, Dario Castello (2), Francesco Usper (2), Guido Rovetto Arciprete di S. Angelo, Giovanni Picchi, Gasparo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinko Fabris
Dinko Fabris is an Italian musicologist. He specializes in lute music, the music of Naples, and Italian music in general, having written books on Italian composers such as Andrea Falconieri, Andrea Gabrieli, Francesco Provenzale and Francesco Cavalli. He holds teaching posts at the Conservatory of Bari and the University of Basilicata, and was president of the International Musicological Society from 2012 to 2017. Life and career Dinko Fabris attended the Conservatorio di Verona to study lute, followed by study at the University of Bologna for Italian literature and musicology. He received a PhD from the Royal Holloway, University of London. A visiting professor at the University of Paris, University of Melbourne and University of Ljubljana, Fabris has received fellowships from the University of Melbourne and the Warburg Institute. He teaches at the Conservatory of Bari, and since 2001 at the University of Basilicata as well. Fabris has advised on numerous scholarly music editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartolomeo Barbarino
Bartolomeo Barbarino (known as "il Pesarino") (c. 1568c. 1617 or later) was an Italian composer and singer of the early Baroque era. He was a virtuoso falsettist, and one of the most enthusiastic composers of the new style of monody. Life Nothing is known about his early life; his birthdate is inferred from the description by an English visitor in 1608 who described him as being "about forty." The first record concerning him is from 1593, when he was employed as an alto in Loreto at Santa Casa. Until 1602 he was in Urbino, where he served both Monsignor Giuliano della Rovere and the Duke of Urbino. From 1602 to 1605 he worked as organist at Pesaro Cathedral, and afterwards worked in Padua for the Bishop of Padua. In 1608 he went to Venice to take part in the Festival of San Rocco. Evidently his fame as a singer was widespread at this time, as he was one of the most distinguished visitors. An English visitor to Venice, Thomas Coryat, left this description of his singing (''Coryat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Cera
Francesco Cera (born in Bologna, Italy) is an Italian harpsichordist, organist and conductor. Accomplished performer of Italian Baroque harpsichord and organ repertoire, he was a student of Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam (1989–90), then in 1991 became member of the ensemble Il Giardino Armonico. Since 1997 he has been director of the Ensemble Arte Musica, specializing in Italian vocal repertoire from Gesualdo and Monteverdi to 18th-century cantatas. Cera has held master classes at the Smarano Organ Academy and the Piccola Accademia Montisi.''Instruments à claviers: expressivité et flexibilité sonore'', by Thomas Steiner (Publikationen der Schweizerischen Musikforschenden Gesellschaft / Publications de la Société suisse de musicologie 44), Bern: Peter Lang, 2004 , page 33: "Der musikalische Teil wurde von Francesco Cera, Sally Fortino, Lorenzo Ghielmi und Harold Lester mit Kompositionen aus dem Umkreis der Instrumente bestritten." Discography Cera has made many recordings of I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Stella (composer)
Andrea Stella (fl. 1620s) was an Italian priest and 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 ....La musica negli archivi e nelle biblioteche delle Marche: primo ...Gabriele Moroni, Associazione marchigiana per la ricerca e valorizzazione delle fonti musicali, Marche (Italy). Centro per i beni culturali - 1996 - Page 71 "Oltre a questo gruppo vi sono Andrea Stella, Completorium una cum antiphonis, Venezia 1618 (T)" References 17th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests Italian Baroque composers Italian male classical composers {{Italy-RC-clergy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacinto Bondioli
Giacinto Bondioli (1596–1636) was an Italian Dominican prior and composer. He was composer at Il convento de' PP. Predicatori di S. Domenico in Venice, and uncle and probably teacher of Biagio Marini Biagio Marini (5 February 1594 – 20 March 1663) was an Italian virtuoso violinist and composer in the first half of the seventeenth century. Marini was born in Brescia. He may have studied with his uncle Giacinto Bondioli. His works were p ....Affetti Musicale Biagio Marini, Thomas D. Dunn, William D. Gudger - 1981 "Marini's uncle, Giacinto Bondioli, was also a composer, and Biagio may have studied with him.5 In 1615 Marini was accepted as an instrumentalist at San Marco in Venice, but by 1620 he was back in Brescia. Between 1621 and the spring of .." References 1596 births 1636 deaths Renaissance composers Italian Dominicans Italian male classical composers Italian classical composers {{Italy-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leandro Gallerano
Leandro Gallerano (fl. 1615–1632) was an Italian composer. His works include a ''Missa Defunctorum'' for five voices and basso continuo Basso continuo parts, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600–1750), provided the harmonic structure of the music by supplying a bassline and a chord progression. The phrase is often shortened to continuo, and the instrumentalists playing th ... (1615).Dies Irae: A Guide to Requiem Music - Page 658 Robert Chase - 2004 "GALLERANO, Leandro. fl. 1615-1632 (ITA) Missa Defunctorum, 5 vv, b.c. (1615). " References Italian male classical composers Italian Baroque composers 17th-century Italian composers 17th-century male musicians {{Italy-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Maria Scorzuto
Giovanni Maria Scorzuto (fl. 1620s) was an Italian composer and organist. He was maestro di cappella at the M. Comunità of Asola, Trevigiana, and had two pieces featured in Simonetti's collection Ghirlanda sacra ''Ghirlanda sacra scielta da diversi eccellentissimi compositori de varii motetti à voce sola'' (Venice, 1625) is a compilation of 44 single-voice motets in the new style assembled by Leonardo Simonetti. Simonetti was a chorister in the Cappella Ma ..., 1625. 17th-century Italian composers Italian male composers 17th-century male musicians {{Italy-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Cavalli
Francesco Cavalli (born Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni; 14 February 1602 – 14 January 1676) was a Republic of Venice, Venetian composer, organist and singer of the early Baroque music, Baroque period. He succeeded his teacher Claudio Monteverdi as the dominant and leading opera composer of the mid 17th-century. A central figure of Venetian musical life, Cavalli wrote more than forty operas, almost all of which premiered in the city's theaters. His best known works include ''Ormindo'' (1644), ''Giasone'' (1649) and ''La Calisto'' (1651). Life Cavalli was born at Crema, Lombardy, Crema, then an Domini di Terraferma, inland province of the Venetian Republic. He became a singer (boy soprano) at St Mark's Basilica in Venice in 1616, where he had the opportunity to work under the tutorship of Claudio Monteverdi. He became second organist in 1639, first organist in 1665, and in 1668 ''Kapellmeister, maestro di cappella''. He took the name "Cavalli" from his patron, Venetian nobleman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulio Cesare Martinengo
Giulio Cesare Martinengo (; – 10 July 1613) was an Italians, Italian composer and teacher of the late Renaissance music, Renaissance and early Baroque music, Baroque Venetian School (music), Venetian School. He was the predecessor to Claudio Monteverdi at St Mark's Basilica, San Marco. He probably came from Verona, and was the son of composer Gabriele Martinengo. Accounts giving his birthdate are conflicting: one from his mother claims he was born in 1564, but a document from the "house of the Accoliti" in Verona gives his age in 1583 as 15. He studied with his father in Verona, and in the 1590s he served at Verona Cathedral as a singer as well as a priest. Martinengo is principally famous as the successor to Giovanni Croce, and predecessor to Claudio Monteverdi, to the post of ''maestro di cappella'' at San Marco in Venice, which was by far the most prestigious post in northern Italy. He was hired on 22 August 1609, at a pay of 200 ducats, after an audition, and on the recom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Maria Sabino
Giovanni Maria Sabino (30 June 1588 April 1649) was an Italian composer, organist and teacher. Sabino was born in Turi, into a family of musicians and composers. He was the brother of Antonio Sabino and uncle of Francesco Sabino. At the age of 14 he went to Naples to study music under Prospero Testa. From 1610-1613 he returned to Turi, taking holy orders. In 1622 he was appointed a teacher at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini, a position he held until 1626. In 1627 he became ''maestro de capella'' at Castel Nuovo, and between 1630 and 1634 was organist at Oratorio di San Filippo, then ''maestro di cappella'' at the Santa Casa dell'Annunziata. He died in Naples. Sabino was the first Neapolitan composer to employ violins in motets. He was the teacher of Gregorio Strozzi, and precursor of Giovanni Salvatore and Francesco Provenzale. He was also the only Southern Italian composer to feature alongside Monteverdi, with 4 motets in Simonetti's publication ''Ghirlanda Sac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Milanuzzi
Carlo Milanuzzi (c. 1590 – c. 1647) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era. Life Carlo Milanuzzi was born in Santa Natoglia, or Esanatoglia in the Marche region, to Milanuzzo and donna Felice, probably around 1590, but not after 1592, the starting-date of the Baptismal Books of the town, in which no documentation of his birth has been found. He spent most of his life in Venice. Though he was an Augustinian friar, he composed both sacred and secular music, and his work is very interesting particularly for the later development of the solo cantata. As Dinko Fabris wrote: «the collections of ''Ariose vaghezze'' published by Milanuzzi in Venice between 1622 and 1643 were a veritable mine of arias and proto-cantatas that had numerous affinities with Falconieri»; into the collections there are inserted many dances, and a quantity of them are for Spanish guitar.Dinko Fabris, ''Preface'', in «Carlo Milanuzzi da Santa Natoglia», cit., p. VII. For example, the 'Terz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Arigoni
Giovanni Giacomo Arigoni also Arrigoni (1597-1675) was an Italian composer in Venice and later organist to Ferdinand II in Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ....Peter Allsop Cavalier Giovanni Battista Buonamente: Franciscan Violinist 2005 - Page 50 "Giovanni Giacomo Arrigoni, 'organista della Sacra Cesarea Maesta di Ferdinando II Imperatore', also divided his output between secular and sacred publications, and his Concert! di camera (1635b) includes several sonatas in six and eight ... References External links 1597 births 1675 deaths Italian Baroque composers 17th-century Italian composers Italian male classical composers 17th-century male musicians {{Italy-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
