Antonio Valente (composer)
Antonio Valente (* around 1520 in Naples ; † around 1600) was an Italian organist , harpsichordist and composer .
Live and act
Antonio Valente worked from 1565 to 1580 as organist at Sant'Angelo a Nilo in Naples. The Dominican and organist Alberto Mazza , as editor of the Intavolature de Cimbalo, mentioned in the preface that Valente was blind from birth. His intavolatura was not notated in the usual Italian piano score, but in a Spanish piano tablature ( intavolation ) (the Kingdom of Naples was then under Spanish rule). Mazza underlined the didactic intention of this notation in the preface and mentioned that such a musical layman could learn to play the harpsichord within a short time. The music theorist Scipione Cerreto gives in his publication Della musica vocale e strumentale (1601) an indication that Valente was not born in Naples.
Works
- Intavolatura de Cimbalo libro primo (consisting of a Fantansia, 6 Ricercare , 1 Salve-Regina, 4 French Chanson diminutions, 6 series of variations on bass movements and 3 dance movements), Naples 1575
- Versi spirituali sopra tutta le note, con diversi canoni spartiti per sonar ne gli organi, messe, vespere, et altri officii divini , libro secondo, Naples 1580
expenditure
- Lo Ballo dell 'Intorcia (in: Silva Ibérica , Schott ED 5494)
- Romanesca (in: Silva Ibérica , Schott ED 4215)
Web links
- The complete harpsichord works by Antonio Valente , on the Deutschlandradio website (accessed on July 18, 2011)
- Sheet music and audio files by Antonio Valente (composer) in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dates of birth according to: Macario Santiago Kastner: Silva Ibérica , Schott ED5494
- ↑ Biographical information according to: The music in past and present , Volume 16, p. 1273
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Valente, Antonio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian Dominican, organist and composer of the Renaissance |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1520 |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1600 |