Girolamo Frescobaldi Italian composer(1583-1643), Girolamo Frescobaldi free midi download

GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI
September 1583 --- 1^stMarch 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
By Steven Ritchie

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(2427)"Messa della Domenica ("Orbis factor") from "Fiori Musicali". Sequenced by Alessandro Gioele Simonetto.

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