Leone Leoni (c. 1560 – 1627) was a North Italian

polyphonic Polyphony ( ) is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice, monophony, or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords, h ...

composer who served as '' maestro di cappella'' at Vicenza Cathedral from 1588. He composed

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 for antiphonal choirs, some in many parts, with instrumental accompaniment. As would be expected of a cathedral ''maestro di cappella'', he also produced

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es, psalms, magnificats and other liturgical music, some published in his ''Cantici sacri'' (1608) as well as sacred and secular

madrigal 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 o ...

s. Leoni succeeded

Giammateo Asola Giammateo Asola (also spelled Gian Matteo, Giovanni Matteo; Asula, Asulae; 1532 or earlier – 1 October 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance. He was a prolific composer of sacred music, mostly in a conservative style, althoug ...

, his master, as ''maestro di capella'' when Asola returned to

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; he contributed to the anthology ''Psalmodia vespertina'' dedicated to Palestrina by Asola and published at Venice. Several books of his motets were printed under the title ''Sacri fiori'' ("Sacred flowers") at Venice, and reprinted. He was received as a member by the Accademia Olimpica, Vicenza, some time between 1609 and 1612. He died at Vicenza. A pupil is likely to have been

Ludovico Balbi Ludovico Balbi (c. 1545 – 1604) was a Venetian singer and composer, and conductor. He was a pupil of Costanzo Porta and a choirmaster at Padua. Among his compositions are masses, motets, canzoni, madrigals, and others. Surviving compositions d ...

.''New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', ''s.v.'' "Balbi, Ludovico".

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Leoni, Leone 1560 births Year of birth uncertain 1627 deaths 16th-century Italian composers 17th-century Italian composers Italian male composers 17th-century male musicians