Alessandro Piccinini

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Alessandro Piccinini (born December 30, 1566 in Bologna ; † around 1638 ibid. (?)) Was an Italian composer, lutenist and theorist .

Life

Alessandro Piccinini grew up in a musical family. Together with his brothers Filippo and Girolamo, he received training as a lutenist from his father Leonardo Maria.

From 1582 to 1597 he worked at the court of Duke Alfonso II in Ferrara . In 1597 he got a job with the papal legate Cardinal Aldobrandini in Bologna as a lutenist, which he held until his death.

Piccinini was not only active as a musician, but also developed other designs of his instruments and claimed to have paved the way for the construction of the theorbo through his own experiments.

Works

Title page of the first volume of the Intavolatura

Little is known of his works. Only Intavolatura di liuto e di chitarrone, libro primo (Bologna, 1623 OCLC 800218697 ) and Intavolatura di liuto e di chitarrone, libro secondo (Bologna, 1639 OCLC 21809428 ) can be ascribed to him. In the 1960s they were transcribed into modern notation and edited by Mirko Caffagni (also Mirco Caffagni) at the University of Bologna . ( OCLC 320144302 , OCLC 929270964 )

literature

  • Alexandro Piccinini: Opera. Intavolatura di Liuto e di Chitarrone ; (Reprint) Bologna, 1962.
    • A. Piccinini: Intavolatura di Liuto et di Chitarrone. Libro primo. Preface translated from the original Italian into German by Sigrun Richter and Alexis Fernández. In: Guitar Laute 3, 1981, Issue 1, pp. 21-30, and Issue 2, pp. 38-45.
  • Denise Perret, Ricardo Correa, Monique Chatton (eds.): Alessandro Piccinini: The lute work of 1623 - Complete works for lute solo. 2 volumes. Heinrichshofen Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1983.
  • Paolo Cherici: Toccata per 2 liuti. Zerboni, Milan.

Recordings (selection)

  • Toccata No. 10 and Corrente . Recorded by Toyhiko Satoh on a chitarrone and released in 1975 on the Telefunken label on the LP Die Barocklaute . OCLC 642979261
  • Toccata No. 9 and Canzone. Recorded by the sound Ensemble Ricardo Corea and 1985 the label Christopher on the CD music of the Renaissance for 1, 2, 3 and 4 sounds published. OCLC 18142228
  • Intavolature di liuto et di chitarrone. Luciano Còntini, Lute and Chitarrone. Tactus, 1990

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Louise K. Stein: Songs of Mortals, Dialogues of the Gods. Oxford 1993, p. 194
  2. ^ Sigrun Richter and Alexis Fernández: A. Piccinini: Intavolatura di Liuto et di Chitarrone. Libro primo 1st part. Foreword translated from the original Italian into German. In: guitar lute. Volume 3, No. 1, 1981, pp. 21-30; here: p. 21.
  3. ^ Matthew Spring: The Lute in Britain: a History of the Instrument and its Music. Oxford 2001, p. 368
personal data
SURNAME Piccinini, Alessandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian lutenist, theorbo player and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1566
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna
DATE OF DEATH around 1638
Place of death Bologna