Bartolomeo Montalbano

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Bartolomeo Montalbano (* around 1595 in Bologna ; † before March 18, 1651 there) was an Italian composer and conductor of the Baroque.

Life

Bartolomeo Montalbano probably received his musical training from Camillo Cortellini (1561-1630) in Bologna. In 1619 he entered the Franciscan order and received his higher orders on July 22, 1622. After a stay in Rome, he was hired by Bonaventura Arezzo, the head of the order in Sicily, to Palermo, where he worked from 1629 as Kapellmeister in the Baida Monastery , where several of his collections of works were published. In 1633 Montalbano returned to the monastery of San Francesco Bologna , where he held the position of " Maestro di capella " from 1642 until his death . His brother Guido Montalbano (1600–1698) took over the position of Kapellmeister in the monastery after 1651.

Works

The printed baroque symphonias for various instrumentations, motets and a four-part mass have survived. The style of his instrumental works is based on the compositions of Biagio Marini and Giovanni Battista Fontana , and Montalbano is one of the founders of modern violin technique in the first third of the 17th century. The sacred works show a simplified style of the sacred concerts by Giovanni Gabrieli and Claudio Monteverdi .

  • Symphony ad uno, e doi violini, a doi, e trombone, con il partimento per l'organo, con alcune à quattro viole . (Palermo, Giovanni Battista Maringo, 1629).
  • Motetti ad 1, 2, 3, 4, et 8 voci, con il partimento per l'organo, et una Messa a 4 . (Palermo, Giovanni Battista Maringo, 1629).

literature

  • Daniele Ficola, Giuseppe Collisani: Bartolomeo Montalbano. In: Studi musicali. 16, 1987, ISSN  0303-4631 , pp. 133-156.
  • Daniele Ficola, Giuseppe Collisani: Foreword. In: Daniele Ficola, Giuseppe Collisani (ed.): Bartolomeo Montalbano. Symphony, Mottetti e Messa 1629. Olschki, Flozrenz 1994, ISBN 88-222-4180-0 . ( Musiche rinascimentali siciliane (MRS) 14).
  • Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea World of Music - The Composers - A lexicon in five volumes . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07830-7 , pp. 70, volume 4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paolo Emilio Carapezza and Giuseppe Collisani:  Montalbano [Mont'Albano] Bartolomeo. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
personal data
SURNAME Montalbano, Bartolomeo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mont'Albano, Bartolomeo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1595
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna
DATE OF DEATH before March 18, 1651
Place of death Bologna