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Giandomenico Martoretta
Giandomenico Martoretta (also ''Giandominico'', ''La Martoretta'', ''Il Martoretta''; Mileto 1515–1560s?) was an Italian Renaissance composer. Little is known of his life, but the style of the dedication of the "master of theology" Giovanfrancesco di Chara in the second book indicates that Martoretta may have been minor gentry or member of an academy. But the preface to the third book of madrigals reveals that he had made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and stayed in Cyprus as guest of a certain noble cavaliere, Piero Singlitico. His first book of madrigals was written in the rapid '' note nere'', black note, style introduced by Constanzo Festa. Theodor Kroyer (1902) believed that Martoretta's madrigals demonstrated chromatic keys. Editions *''Il primo libro di madrigali cromatici a quattro voci'' (1548) Gardano, Venice. *''Il secondo libro di madrigali cromatici a quattro voci'' (1552) edited by Maria Antonella Balsano, Firenze, 1988 (Musiche Rinascimentali Siciliane Vol.11).Seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mileto
Mileto ( Calabrian: ; grc, Μίλητος, translit=Míletos) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Vibo Valentia in the Italian region Calabria, located about southwest of Catanzaro and about south of Vibo Valentia. Mileto is the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Mileto. History According to tradition, the city was founded, not far from the site of ancient Medma by Greek fugitives from Miletus (Miletos in Greek; hence the name) in Anatolia, which had been destroyed by Darius. Mileto was a Norman stronghold under Roger I of Sicily, the last great leader of the Norman conquest of southern Italy. He died here of old age in 1101. Roger's son and also a Count of Sicily, Simon died in the town in 1105, when he was 12 years old. Simon's brother and successor Roger II was born here in 1095. He began his rule as Count of Sicily in 1105 and later became Duke of Apulia and Calabria in 1127. He became the first King of Sicily in 1130. In 1807 it was the location of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erasmo Marotta
Erasmo Marotta (1576–1641) was a Jesuit Sicilian composer of motet In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present. The motet was one of the pre-eminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music. According to Margar ...s and madrigals.''Storia generale della Sicilia: Storia civile '' p. 6 Vol 6 p303 ed. Francesco Ferrara - 1833 "Erasmo Marotta nacque a Randazzo. Ricco di genio per la musica se ne andò a Roma , dove acquistò fama," He was born in Randazzo and died in Palermo. Editions * ''Mottetti concertati: a due, tre, quattro e cinque voci'' ed. Irene Calagna 2002 pp147 Recordings *''Fecit Deus. Quis mihi det.'' on Fabellae Sacrae. Savadi. 2008 References 1565 births 1641 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] |
Madrigal Composers
A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance (15th–16th c.) and early Baroque (1600–1750) periods, although revisited by some later European composers. The polyphonic madrigal is unaccompanied, and the number of voices varies from two to eight, but usually features three to six voices, whilst the metre of the madrigal varies between two or three tercets, followed by one or two couplets. Unlike the verse-repeating strophic forms sung to the same music, most madrigals are through-composed, featuring different music for each stanza of lyrics, whereby the composer expresses the emotions contained in each line and in single words of the poem being sung. As written by Italianized Franco–Flemish composers in the 1520s, the madrigal partly originated from the three-to-four voice frottola (1470–1530); partly from composers' renewed interest in poetry written in vernacular Italian; partly from the stylistic influence of the French chanson; and fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Composers From Sicily
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 Definition The term is descended from Latin, ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together". The earliest use of the term in a musical context given by the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' is from Thomas Morley's 1597 ''A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music'', where he says "Some wil be good descanters ..and yet wil be but bad composers". 'Composer' is a loose term that generally refers to any person who writes music. More specifically, it is often used to denote people who are composers by occupation, or those who in the tradition of Western classical music. Writers of exclusively or primarily songs may be called composers, but since the 20th century the terms 'songwriter' or 'singer-songwriter' are more often used, particularly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Baroque Composers
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1560s Deaths
Year 156 ( CLVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silvanus and Augurinus (or, less frequently, year 909 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 156 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place America * The La Mojarra Stela 1 is produced in Mesoamerica. By topic Religion * The heresiarch Montanus first appears in Ardaban (Mysia). Births * Dong Zhao, Chinese official and minister (d. 236) * Ling of Han, Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty (d. 189) * Pontianus of Spoleto, Christian martyr and saint (d. 175) * Zhang Zhao, Chinese general and politician (d. 236) * Zhu Zhi, Chinese general and politician (d. 224) Deaths * Marcus Gavius Maximus, Roman praetorian prefect * Zhang Daoling, Chinese Taoist master (b. AD 34 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1515 Births
__NOTOC__ Year 1515 ( MDXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January 25 – Francis I of France is crowned (reigns until 1547). * May 13 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France, and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, are officially married at Greenwich (near London). * June 13 – Battle of Turnadag: The army of Ottoman sultan Selim I defeats the beylik of Dulkadir under Bozkurt of Dulkadir. July–December * July 2 – Manchester Grammar School is endowed by Hugh Oldham, the first free grammar school in England. * July 22 – At the First Congress of Vienna, a double wedding takes place to cement agreements. Louis, only son of King Vladislaus II of Hungary, marries Mary of Austria, granddaughter of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor; and Mary's brother, Archduke Ferdinand, marries Vladislaus' daughter, Anna. * August 25 – Conquistador Diego Velázquez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Capuana
Mario Capuana (1576 in Sicily – 4 May 1647 in Noto) was an Italian composer of motets and a requiem. He was ''maestro di capella'' at the Cathedral of Noto in the Province of Syracuse from 1628 to his death in 1647. In the years before and immediately after his death were published a small flurry of works in Venice. Editions *''Messa da requiem a 4'' (Venice, posthumous 1650) – edited with Requiem (1653) of Bonaventura Rubino. 1999. A copy is preserved in the Archive of the Sing-Akademie Zu Berlin, complete with needlessly disparaging comments in the handwriting of Carl Friedrich Zelter. *''Sacro Armonie a tre voci con Basso Continuo por sonar il Clavicembalo ò altro Stromento di Mario Capuana Maestro di Capella.''Catalogo della Biblioteca del Liceo musicale de Bologna. *''Mario Capuana Motetti concertati a due, tre, quattro e cinque voci'' (1649) edition 1998. – This is one of the series of Renaissance Sicilian composers including Claudio Pari, Pietro Vinci, Antonio Il Ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincenzo Gallo
Vincenzo is an Italian male given name, derived from the Latin name Vincentius (the verb ''vincere'' means to win or to conquer). Notable people with the name include: Art *Vincenzo Amato (born 1966), Italian actor and sculptor * Vincenzo Bellavere (c.1540-1541 – 1587), Italian composer *Vincenzo Bellini (1801–1835), Italian composer *Vincenzo Camuccini (1771–1844), Italian academic painter *Vincenzo Catena (c. 1470 – 1531), Italian painter *Vincenzo Cerami (1940–2013), Italian screenwriter *Vincenzo Consolo (1933–2012), Italian writer * Vincenzo Coronelli (1650–1718), Franciscan friar, cosmographer, cartographer, publisher, and encyclopedist *Vincenzo Crocitti (1949–2010), Italian cinema and television actor *Vincenzo Dimech (1768–1831), Maltese sculptor * Vincenzo Galilei (1520–1591), composer, lutenist, and music theorist, father of Galileo *Vincenzo Marra (born 1972), Italian filmmaker *Vincenzo Migliaro (1858–1938), Italian painter *Vincenzo Natali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonaventura Rubino
Fray Bonaventura Rubino (c. 1600–1668) was an Italian composer. According to his publications, his origin of "Montecchio di Lombardia" probably indicates that he was from Montecchio in Darfo Boario Terme, one hour east of Bergamo. He was ''maestro di cappella'' at the Cathedral of Palermo from 1643 to 1665. Rubino's 1644 ''Vespro dello Stellario'' was reconstructed in 1996Colisani ''Vespro dello Stellario'' 1996 and subsequently performed by 120 musicians, four organs and a large group of vocal soloists, in 12 choirs and with the instrumental groups laid out in a star formation. Works *Op. 1 ''Vespro della Beata Vergine - Prima parte del tesoro armonico'' Palermo, 1645 *Op. 2 ''Messa, e Salmi A Otto Voci, Concertati nel Primo Choro di Fr. Bonaventura Rubino da Montecchio di Lombardia.'' 1651 *Op. 3 ''Il primo libro de motetti concertati a due, tre, quattro, e cinque voct. Di F. Bonaventura Rubino da Montechio di Lombardia Min F. dedicati all'illustriss. et eccellentiss. signor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartolomeo Montalbano
Bartolomeo Montalbano (c. 1598 - before 18 March 1651, Venice) was an Italian Baroque composer. Montalbano was born in Bologna. After entering the Franciscan order, in 1619, he got his musical education there. From 1629, he worked as a ''Kapellmeister'' in Palermo and from 1642 until his death, he held the same position at the San Francesco in Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat .... His sacred music has not survived, but his baroque symphonies for various orchestration, motets and a mass for four voices have been preserved. List of selected works * ''Sinfonie ad uno, e doi violini, a doi, e trombone, con il partimento per l’organo, con alcune a quattro viole'' (Palermo 1629) * ''Motetti ad 1, 2, 3, 4, et 8 voci, con il partimento per l’organo, et una mess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cataldo Amodei
Cataldo Vito Amodei (6 May 1649 13 July 1693) was an Italian composer of the mid-Baroque (music), Baroque period who spent his career in Naples. His cantatas were important predecessors to the active cantata production of 18th-century Naples, and he stands with the elder Francesco Provenzale and younger Alessandro Scarlatti as among the principal cantata composers. Other surviving works include a book of motets dedicated to Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor; a serenata; two pastorales; two psalms; and four oratorios, which were important contributions to their genre. Amodei held posts at various musical institutions, (choirmaster) at San Paolo Maggiore and two prestigious conservatories: the (1680/81–1688) and second choirmaster at (1687–1689). His virtuoso, virtuosic 1685 book of cantatas, ''Cantate'', Op. 2, was the first book of cantatas published in Naples. Life and career Early life Cataldo Amodei was born in Sciacca, Sicily, near Agrigento; at the time, Sciacca had a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
