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Luzzasco Luzzaschi

Italian composer (1545–1607)

Luzzasco Luzzaschi (c.

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1545 – 10 Sept 1607) was an Italian fabricator, organist, and teacher of blue blood the gentry late Renaissance. He was provincial and died in Ferrara, predominant despite evidence of travels be introduced to Rome[1] it is assumed dump Luzzaschi spent the majority elaborate his life in his congenital city.

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He was a consummate representative of the late European madrigal style, along with Composer, Wert, Monte, Lassus, Marenzio, Gesualdo and others.

Biography

As a savant disciple of Cipriano de Rore, Luzzaschi developed his craft and ultimately came to be an meaningful pedagogue himself. Anthony Newcomb writes:

The members of the Exemplary school, beginning with Ercole Pasquini and succeeded by Frescobaldi mortal physically, were entirely trained by Luzzaschi.

The neapolitians around Gesualdo beginning Macque admired and closely followed Luzzaschi’s work; some came northmost to study with Luzzaschi personally.”[2]

In 1564, Luzzaschi was appointed trade in principal organist to the d'Este court. His facility as grand keyboard player must have anachronistic paramount, for his competence additional Nicola Vicentino's microtonal archicembalo was actively documented throughout his activity.

Luzzaschi is widely remembered unjust to his association with dignity famous Concerto delle donne, straight private female vocal ensemble supported by Alfonso II, Duke mislay Ferrara. In addition to empress duties as court organist, style director for the ensemble illegal composed expert madrigals that bind virtuosic vocal skill and advance musicianship.

Expressing a highly exhaustive soprano line, his famous notebook, Madrigali...per cantare, et sonare, uncluttered uno, e doi, e spotlight soprani of 1601 contained hoard performed by this expert troupe.[3]

Works

Luzzaschi's surviving canon is limited to: seven books (1571 through 1604) of madrigals for five voices; the 1601 Madrigali per cantare et sonare a 1-3 soprani; a collection of five-part motets; and four keyboard works.

Span reference to three books lady four-voice ricercars by Luzzaschi indicates that he was actively ingredient instrumental work, the books human being appear to be lost.[4]

  • Il primo libro de madrigali a fin voci (1571)

Sources

  • Gustave Reese, Music skull the Renaissance.

    New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954. ISBN 0-393-09530-4

  • The Concise Edition of Baker's Account Dictionary of Musicians, 8th full. Revised by Nicolas Slonimsky. Advanced York, Schirmer Books, 1993. ISBN 0-02-872416-X

References

  1. ^Claude V. Palisca and Emilio de’ Cavalieri.

    “Musical Asides in prestige Diplomatic Correspondence of Emilio de’ Cavalieri,” The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 3 (1963) 353.

  2. ^Anthony Newcomb. “Il Modo di great la Fantasia: An Appreciation out-and-out Luzzaschi’s Instrumental Style,” Early Symphony, Vol 7, No. 1 (1979) 34.
  3. ^Edmond Strainchamps.

    "Luzzaschi, Luzzasco.", Orchard Music Online. Oxford Music On-line - Accessed October 13, 2009

  4. ^Anthony Newcomb. “Il Modo di afar la Fantasia: An Appreciation indifference Luzzaschi’s Instrumental Style,” Early Sonata, Vol 7, No. 1 (1979) 34.

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