Carlo Filago

Carlo Filago also: Fillago (* 1589 in Rovigo ; † 1644 in Venice ) was an Italian composer and organist of the Venetian early Baroque.

Life

Carlo Filago studied organ with Luzzasco Luzzaschi in Ferrara. From 1608 to 1623 he was organist at the Cathedral of Treviso, where he enjoyed a good reputation as such. After frequent disputes over competence with the conductor Amadio Freddi (around 1594–1634) Filago applied in Venice and in 1623 became the first organist at St. Mark's Basilica , at the time of the conductor Claudio Monteverdi , a position he held until his death. In 1631, following Francesco Cavalli , he was also organist at San Zanipolo in Venice.

Twenty years after his death, Nicolò Doglioni and Zuanne Zittio (1662) described his music in “Le cose notabili et meravigliose della città di Venetia” with the statement “Carlo Filago had such an extravagant sound, which was called chromatic, that nobody could imitate knew."

Works

All of Filago's published collections include motets, sacred concerts and smaller ecclesiastical works in the concertato style , which were widely distributed in northern Italian churches.

• Motecta… liber primus, for 1–4 voices (1611)
• Sacrae cantiones, liber primus (1611)
• Sacrarum cantionum, liber tertius, for 2–6 voices and Bcper organum (1619)
• " Madrigali del Signor Cavaliero Anselmi nobile di Treviso, posti in musica da diversi Eccellentissimi Spiriti " for 2–3 voices and bc (1624)
• 4 motets, (1624)
• Sacri concerti, for 1 voice and bc op.4 (1642)

Web links

• Sheet music and audio files by Carlo Filago in the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Filago biography of Ercole Nisini in concert proposal (PDF file; 2.17 MB), accessed on January 27, 2016 ( Memento from November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )