Vincenzo Ugolini (1 November 1578; 6 May 1638) was an

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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 ...

of the early

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era and of the

Roman School In music history, the Roman School was a group of composers of predominantly church music, in Rome, during the 16th and 17th centuries, therefore spanning the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. The term also refers to the music they produ ...

Life

Born in

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, he was first a ''puer chori'' (boy soprano) at

San Luigi dei Francesi The Church of St. Louis of the French ( it, San Luigi dei Francesi, french: Saint Louis des Français, la, S. Ludovici Francorum de Urbe) is a Roman Catholic church in Rome, not far from Piazza Navona. The church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, ...

in Rome under

Giovanni Bernardino Nanino Giovanni Bernardino Nanino (ca. 1560 – 1623) was an Italian composer, teacher and singing master of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, and a leading member of the Roman School of composers. He was the younger brother of the some ...

; then he was engaged as a contralto until July 1594 and as a bass from the beginning of May 1600 until the end of 1601. In 1603 he was ''mastro di capella'' of Santa Maria Maggiore, in Rome. After an illness in 1606, in 1609 he left this work and became ''maestro'' at the Duomo of Benevento until 1615 (but in 1614 he worked for Cardinal Arrigoni in Rome). From 2 July 1616 he turned to San Luigi dei Francesi holding the same positions, and in 1620 he succeeded

Francesco Soriano Francesco Soriano (1548 or 1549, in Soriano nel Cimino – 19 July 1621, in Rome) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most skilled members of the Roman School in the first generation after Palestrina. Soriano was born ...

as ''maestro'' of the

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at San Pietro. In 1629 he was deponent for the testament of the composer

Domenico Allegri Domenico Allegri (c. 1585 – 5 September 1629) was an Italian composer and singer of the early Baroque Roman School. He was the second son of the Milanese coachman Costantino Allegri, who lived in Rome with his family, and was a younger broth ...

, brother of

Gregorio Allegri Gregorio Allegri (17 February 1652) was a Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic priest and Italy, Italian composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri; he was also a singer. He was born"Allegri, Gregorio" in ''Chambers's Encyclop ...

. From May 1631 he was again maestro of San Luigi, and held the post until his death in 1638; his successor was his pupil

Orazio Benevoli Orazio Benevoli or Benevolo (19 April 1605 – 17 June 1672), was a Franco-Italian composer of large scaled polychoral sacred choral works (e.g., one work featured forty-eight vocal and instrumental lines) of the mid-Baroque era. He was born ...

Works

*''Sacrae cantiones'', lib. 1, 8vv, bc (Roma, 1614); *''Il primo libro de madrigali'', 5vv (Venezia, 1615); *''Il secondo libro de madrigali'', 5vv (Venezia, 1615); *''Motecta sive sacrae cantiones'', lib. 1, 1–4vv (Venezia, 1616); *''Motecta sive sacrae cantione''s, lib.2, 1–4vv (Venezia, 1617); *''Motecta sive sacrae cantiones'', lib.3, 1–4vv (Venezia, 1618); *''Motecta sive sacrae cantiones'', lib.4, 1–4vv (Roma, 1619); *''Motecta et missae'', lib. 2, 8, 12vv, bc (Roma, 1622); *''Psalmi ad vesperas'', 8vv, bc (Venezia, 1628); *''Psalmi ad vesperas et motect''a, lib. 1, 12vv, bc (Venezia, 1630); *2 motets, 2vv, bc, 1618, 1619, 3vv, bc, 1621, 1625; *2 hymns: ''Veni Creator Spiritus'', 4vv; ''Gloria Patri Domino nato'', 5vv; *4 antiphons: ''Illuminare his qui in tenebris'', 8vv; ''Omnes gentes plaudite manibus'', 8vv; ''Et tu puer propheta'', 8vv; ''Petrus apostolus'', 6vv; *''Litaniae lauretanae'', 8vv; *''Lauda Sion Salvatorem'', 6vv; *''Favus distillans'', mottetto, 8vv, bc; *''Jubilate Deo'', 5vv.

Sources, further reading

* Alberto Cametti, ''La scuola dei «pueri cantus» di S. Luigi dei francesi in Roma e i suoi principali allievi (1591-1623): Gregorio, Domenico e Bartolomeo Allegri, Antonio Cifra, Orazio Benevoli'', Torino, Fratelli Bocca, 1915. * Klaus Fischer, 'Vincenzo Ugolini', in '' New Grove Dictionary''. * Jean Lionnet, ''La musique à Saint-Louis des Français de Rome au XVII^o siècle'', in «Note d’archivio per la storia musicale», n. s., a. III, 1985, suppl.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ugolini, Vincenzo Italian Baroque composers 1580s births 1638 deaths Italian male classical composers People from Perugia Year of birth uncertain 17th-century Italian composers 17th-century male musicians