Bartolomeo Montalbano (c. 1598 - before 18 March 1651, Venice) was an Italian

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

composer. Montalbano was born in

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. After entering the

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order, in 1619, he got his musical education there. From 1629, he worked as a ''

Kapellmeister (, also , ) from German ''Kapelle'' (chapel) and ''Meister'' (master)'','' literally "master of the chapel choir" designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians. Originally used to refer to somebody in charge of music in a chapel, the term ha ...

'' in

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and from 1642 until his death, he held the same position at the San Francesco in

. 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 messa a 4 voci'' (Palermo 1629)

Sources

Article
on German Wikipedia * ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians''

External links

Biography at answers.com
* 1590s births 1651 deaths Italian Baroque composers Composers from Sicily 17th-century Italian composers Italian male classical composers 17th-century male musicians {{Italy-composer-stub