Simone Molinaro

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Simone Molinaro (c. 1570 – May 1636)[1] was a composer of the late Renaissance in Italy. He was especially renowned for his lute music.

Life and career[]

Molinaro was born in Genoa. He studied music with his uncle, , who was maestro di cappella at Genoa Cathedral. In 1593, Gostena was murdered, and Molinaro succeeded him in his post at the Cathedral in 1599.[2] The same year he published Intavolatura di liuto, containing lute works both by himself and by Gostena. In addition to his lute works, Molinaro composed a large amount of sacred choral music, most of which does not survive completely because of missing partbooks. However, some five-voice motets have been preserved in the collections of Hasler and . Molinaro died in May 1636 in Genoa.[1]

Molinaro also served as editor of the works of Carlo Gesualdo, publishing editions of that composer's madrigals in 1585 and 1613.[3]

Assessment[]

In his dances for lute, according to Eitner, Molinaro "despises all counterpoint, and shows himself as a pure melodist and harmonist, but both in so simple and pretty a way, that they all have something uncommonly attractive".[4] Molinaro wrote at the time when, according to Paul Henry Lang, lute music was reaching its apogee. Along with , Molinaro's lute music introduces "a finished, graceful, and sovereign instrumental style, capable of all shades of expression and of a technique which we usually associate only with the vocal music of the period".[5]

The 1613 publication of the Gesualdo madrigals was ground-breaking because it presented Gesualdo's music in full score as opposed to partbook format.[6]

Molinaro's music was used as the basis for "Balletto detto il Conte Orlando" of the Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 1 by Ottorino Respighi.

Works[]

Lute[]

  • Intavolatura di liuto libro 1, Venice, 1599

Secular Vocal music[]

  • Il 1 libro di canzonette a 3 e 4 voci, Venice, 1595
  • Il 1 libro de Madrigali a 5 voci, Venice, 1599
  • Il 2 libro delle Canzonette a 3 voci, Venice, 1600
  • Madrigali a 5 voci, Loano 1615

Sacred Vocal music[]

  • Motectorum quinis et Missae denis vocibus liber I, Venice, 1597
  • Il 2 libro de Mottetti a 8 voci, Milan, 1601
  • Il 1 libro de mottetti a 5 voci, con la partitura per sonar l'organo, Milan, 1604
  • Il 1 libro de Magnificat a 4 voci, con basso continuato, Milan, 1605
  • Concerti ecclesiastisi a 2 e a 4 voci...con la sua part. per l'organo, Venice, 1605
  • Il 3 libro de Mottetti a 5 voci con il basso continuato, Venice, 1609
  • Fatiche spirituali...libro 1 a 6 voci, Venice, 1610
  • Fatiche spirituali....libro 2 a 6 voci, Venice, 1610
  • Concerti a 1 e 2 voci con la part. per l'organo, Milan, 1612
  • Passio Domini Iesu Christi secundum Matthaeum, Marcum, Lucam, et Ioannem, Loano, 1616

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Personenteil, Band 12, Kassel 2004, p. 308. ISBN 3-7618-1122-5
  2. ^ Cummings(n.d.)
  3. ^ Burgh, Allatson (1814). Anecdotes of music, historical and biographical: in a series of letters from a gentleman to his daughter, Volume 2. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. p. 27.
  4. ^ cited in Grove (1907)
  5. ^ Lang, Paul Henry (1997). Music in Western civilization. New York: Norton. p. 248. ISBN 0-393-04074-7.
  6. ^ Watkins, Glenn (2010). The Gesualdo Hex: Music, Myth, and Memory. New York: Norton. p. 276. ISBN 978-0-393-07102-3.

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