LIFE
-c 1566-1613
-Prince of Venosa, Italy
-one of the greatest and most innovative composers of Italian late-Renaissance madrigals
-1594 began publishing 6 volumes of 5 part madrigals
-manic depressive-required his servants beat him to remove demons, murdered his fist wife and her lover
-played the lute
-Prince of Venosa, Italy
-one of the greatest and most innovative composers of Italian late-Renaissance madrigals
-1594 began publishing 6 volumes of 5 part madrigals
-manic depressive-required his servants beat him to remove demons, murdered his fist wife and her lover
-played the lute
STYLE
-concentrated on texts using more extreme emotions such as cruelty and severe sadness
-dramatic-unusally wide leaps, interrupted rhythms, sudden chord changes
-sudden changes of tonality, harmony, intensity, highly chromatic
-influenced by Greek musical theory
-extravagant word painting
-wrote his own texts (reflecting on his own guilt and remorse)
-dramatic-unusally wide leaps, interrupted rhythms, sudden chord changes
-sudden changes of tonality, harmony, intensity, highly chromatic
-influenced by Greek musical theory
-extravagant word painting
-wrote his own texts (reflecting on his own guilt and remorse)
WORKS
-6 volumes of madrigals
-2 books of motets
-one book of responsories
-several keyboard works
-several volumes of sacred canticles
-2 books of motets
-one book of responsories
-several keyboard works
-several volumes of sacred canticles