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Brazilian musician and composer (1847-1935)
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2023-09-04 14:58:48
Jacopo Peri, part II, 2023
[…] production: the jealous Caccini rewrote the parts sung by his musicians, and Cavalieri staged the opera’s production (that was not enough for Cavalieri: he expected to be put in charge of all the festivities, which didn’t happen; disappointed, he left Florence for good. We recently mentioned this episode while writing about Cavalieri). In the 1600s, while residing in Florence and continuing to compose for the Medici court, Peri established a close relationship with Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua. He wrote two operas for the Mantuan court, neither of which were performed, and many songs and instrumental pieces, the majority of which are now lost. Later in his life, he worked mostly in collaboration with other composers, a practice quite unusual for our time. He wrote two operas with Marco da Gagliano, the second, La Flora, for the occasion of the election of Ferdinand II as the Emperor of the […]
2023-08-22 13:00:00
Vache Baroque's Rossi 400 project
Salamone Rossi (c1570-1630) was an Italian Jewish violinist and composer who worked in Mantua as a colleague of Monteverdi. Rossi was a violinist at the Mantuan court from 1587 to 1628. He probably died when the duchy was invaded by the Austrians when the ruling Gonzaga family was defeated, and the Jewish ghetto in Mantua was destroyed. Rossi was highly regarded by the Mantuan court, so much so that he was excused wearing the yellow badge required of Jews in Mantua. Title page of the first edition of Hashirim asher leSholomo(Venice: Pietro e Lorenzo Bragadino, 1623)Rossi published significant collections of madrigals and instrumental pieces which deserve to be better known, but if his name is known at all it is because of his Ha-shirim asher li-Shlomo, The Songs of Solomon in 1623 [the name is a deliberate pun]. These set the Hebrew texts of the Song of Solomon in music written in the Baroque style […]
2022-03-17 07:32:56
This year's York Early Music Festival in July will be presenting nine days of concerts, talks and workshops under the title Connections. Alongside visiting ensembles such as The Sixteen, the Tallis Scholars and Gabrieli Consort & Players, the York International Young Artists Competition will be returning. The Sixteen will be performing their Choral Pilgrimage programme based around Parry's Songs of Farewell, whilst the Tallis Scholars look at connections between Josquin, Palestrina and Byrd, and Gabrieli Consort & Players present A Venetian Coronation, their recreation of the 1595 Coronation Mass of the Venetian Doge at St Mark’s. Other performers include gamba specialists Paolo Pandolfo & Amélie Chemin; The Gonzaga Band; The Rose Consort of Viols; the University of York Baroque Ensemble; Orí Harmelin; Profeti della Quinta; the Yorkshire Baroque Soloists; and Ensemble Voces Suaves. For the competition, ten groups from across Europe will give informal recitals at St Margaret's Church (home of […]
2022-02-21 11:25:25
[…] significant musical establishment. Johann Rosenmüller didn't actually work in Vienna but his music appeared in collections and was admired. He had a dramatic career, all set to become the next Thomaskantor in Leipzig he was arrested for homosexuality and fled to Venice, where the music and the opera there had a remarkable effect on his music. We hear a sonata from his last set, published in 1682 Giovanni Battista Buonamente came to Vienna with Eleanora Gonzaga and became musicista da camera to the Emperor so we can imagine Buonamente and colleagues playing his Sonata Prima (from his sixth book of sonatas) for the Emperor's delectation or simply has background music! Johann Caspar Kerll studied initially with Valentini, one of Schmeltzer's Italian predecessors at the Viennese court, before travelling to Rome and studying with Carissimi. Time as Kapellmeister at the Munich court ended with a dispute, which is how he ended up in Vienna, […]
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