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Luca Marenzio (Coccaglio, 18 de outubro de 1553? – Roma, 22 de agosto de 1599) foi um compositor e cantor italiano.
- Early Years
- Early Career
- Cardinal Luigi D'este
- Florence and Return to Rome
- Poland
- Music
- Influence
- References
- Further Reading
- External Links
According to biographer Leonardo Cozzando, writing in the late 17th century, Marenzio was born at Coccaglio, a small town near Brescia, as one of seven children to a poor family. His father was a notary clerk in Brescia. A birthdate of October 18, 1553 has been proposed, based his father's stating in 1588 that his son was 35, and a suggestion that ...
He may have had some early musical training under Giovanni Contino, who was maestro di cappella at Brescia Cathedral from 1565 to 1567. He may also have gone with Contino to Mantua in 1568 when Contino began serving the Mantuan Gonzagafamily; later in his life, Marenzio mentioned having spent five years in Mantua in the service of the Gonzaga famil...
After the cardinal's death Marenzio served at the court of Cardinal Luigi d'Este, who was a friend of Madruzzo; according to Marenzio himself, writing in the dedication of his first madrigal book, he was the cardinal's maestro di cappella, although Luigi's musical establishment only included a handful of musicians. Shortly after his hire, Luigi att...
By the end of 1587, Marenzio had entered into the service of Ferdinando I de' Medici in Florence, where he stayed for two years. It is highly probable that he was already in the service of Ferdinando while the latter was still a cardinal living in Rome, and that he followed him to Florence when he succeeded to the granducal throne in 1587.[citation...
Marenzio's final trip was a long one. He went to Poland in between late 1595 and early 1596, staying at least through October 1596, accepting a position as maestro di cappella at the court of Sigismund III Vasa in Warsaw; his predecessor, Annibale Stabile, had just died after only being there two months. While in Warsaw – the location of the court,...
While Marenzio wrote some sacred music in the form of masses, motets, and madrigali spirituali (madrigals based on religious texts), the vast majority of his work, and his enduring legacy, is his enormous output of madrigals. They vary greatly in style, technique and tone through the two decades of his composing career. To Marenzio, each madrigal t...
Luca Marenzio was hugely influential on composers in Italy, as well as in the rest of Europe, particularly in England, as his madrigals from the 1580s were among the favorites of English composers, who adapted his techniques of word-painting, textural contrast, and chromaticism to an English idiom. As an example, when Nicholas Yonge published his M...
Arnold, Denis and Tim Carter. "Marenzio, Luca." In The Oxford Companion to Music, edited by Alison Latham. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/opr/t114/e4218(ac...Alfred Einstein, The Italian Madrigal. Three volumes. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1949. ISBN 0-691-09112-9Bizzarini, Marco, Luca Marenzio: The Career of a Musician Between the Renaissance and the Counter-Reformation. Translated by James Chater. Aldershot, Ashgate, 2003. ISBN 0-7546-0516-7James Chater, Luca Marenzio and the Italian Madrigal, 1577–1593. Two volumes. Ann Arbor, UMI Research Press, 1981. ISBN 0-8357-1242-7Ledbetter, Steven (Summer 1979). "Marenzio's Early Career". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 32 (2): 304–320. doi:10.2307/831081. JSTOR 831081.
Free scores by Luca Marenzio in the Choral Public Domain Library(ChoralWiki)Free scores by Luca Marenzio at the International Music Score Library Project(IMSLP)The Italian Madrigal Resource Center. https://italianmadrigal.comThe Mutopia Project has compositions by Luca MarenzioLuca Marenzio (born 1553, Coccaglio, near Brescia, Republic of Venice [now Italy]—died Aug. 22, 1599, Rome) was a composer whose madrigals are considered to be among the finest examples of Italian madrigals of the late 16th century.
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Explore the life and music of Luca Marenzio, one of the foremost composers of Renaissance madrigals. This video delves into Marenzio's prolific career, his i...
The Marenzio Online Digital Edition (MODE) is a critical edition of the secular music of Luca Marenzio (ca. 1553-1599), one of the most influential composers of the European Renaissance.
Luca Marenzio o Marenzi è stato un compositore, cantore e liutista italiano. Fu uno fra i più acclamati autori di madrigali del suo tempo.
Luca Marenzio o Marentio (Coccaglio, Brescia, 18 de octubre de 1553-Roma, 22 de agosto de 1599) fue un compositor italiano del renacimiento tardío, uno de los más renombrados de su época por la composición de madrigales, antes de la transformación estilística que -ya en el Barroco - les imprimió Monteverdi.
