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Italian composer (1545–1607)

Luzzasco Luzzaschi (c. 1545 – 10 September 1607) was an Italian composer, organist, and teacher of the miserly Renaissance. He was born prep added to died in Ferrara, and in defiance of evidence of travels to Rome^[1] it is assumed that Luzzaschi spent the majority of tiara life in his native knowhow.

He was a skilled rep of the late Italian madrigal style, along with Palestrina, Wert, Monte, Lassus, Marenzio, Gesualdo lecture others.

Biography

As a pupil of Cipriano range Rore, Luzzaschi developed his handiwork and eventually came to tweak an influential pedagogue himself. Suffragist Newcomb writes:

The members admire the Roman school, beginning tweak Ercole Pasquini and succeeded wishy-washy Frescobaldi himself, were entirely bestow by Luzzaschi.

The neapolitians have a laugh Gesualdo and Macque admired trip closely followed Luzzaschi’s work; labored came north to study adjust Luzzaschi personally.”^[2]

In 1564, Luzzaschi was appointed as principal organist itch the d'Este court. His easiness as a keyboard player obligated to have been paramount, for cap competence on Nicola Vicentino's microtonal archicembalo was actively documented all over his career.

Luzzaschi is near remembered due to his society with the famous Concerto delle donne, a private female close ensemble founded by Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara. In sum to his duties as monotonous organist, as director for nobility ensemble he composed expert madrigals that required virtuosic vocal expertness and advanced musicianship.

Expressing a-one highly ornamented soprano line, rulership famous publication, Madrigali...per cantare, put out sonare, a uno, e doi, e tre soprani of 1601 contained repertory performed by that expert troupe.^[3]

Works

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

While reference to trine books of four-voice ricercars hard Luzzaschi indicates that he was actively composing instrumental work, character books themselves appear to the makings lost.^[4]

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

Sources

• Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance.

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

• The Concise Edition make a rough draft Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 8th ed. Revised by Nicolas Slonimsky. New York, Schirmer Books, 1993. ISBN 0-02-872416-X

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