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GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI

September 1583 --- 1stMarch 1643

Girolamo Frescobaldi  was born  in 1583 in  the town of  Ferrara and died  in Rome in 1643.  He was one of the two great  formative
influences on the evolution of keyboard music during the 17th century were the Dutchman J. P. Sweelinck and the Italian Girolamo
Frescobaldi. Frescobaldi, the younger of the two by twenty years, was born at Ferrara in 1583. There he was a pupil of the organist
Luzzasco Luzzaschi, through whom he no doubt became acquainted with the work of  the madrigalist, Gesualdo,  Luzzachi's friend.

He worked and studied for a time at Rome before travelling with Guido Bentivoglio of Ferrara to Brussels (1607-8) where he gained
first-hand acquaintance with the music of Sweelinck himself. He passed the rest of his career, apart from a six year period spent  at
Florence, in Rome. Frescobaldi's fame as an executant spread  all over Europe and pupils  flocked to study under him.  Among them
was the German J. J. Froberger, while some fifty years later Johann Sebastian Bach studied the works in the Fiori Musicali.

The hallmarks of Frescobaldi's style were clarity of harmonic structure,  the fullest  exploitation of thematic  material in a  wealth of
masterly  sets  of variations,  the incorporation  of the  art of the  virtuoso into  compositions of the highest  musical worth,  and the
cultivation of a pure and cantabile line. In addition to his keyboard  music he wrote  madrigals & music for  instrumental ensembles.

His canzoni like those of some of his contmporaries exhibited important trend away from the multi-sectional form towards the three
or four movements of the later sonata. Yet despite his great fame, Frescobaldi's example was followed far more eagerly abroad than
at home. Apart from his pupil Michelangelo Rossi, it was not until the work of Bernardo Pasquin  that an important  Italian composer
follow him.

Copyright The Larousse Encyclopedia.

Last Updated on 2017
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