Diomedes Cato
Diomedes Cato , also Diomedes Venetus (* after 1560 near Treviso ; † after 1618 in Poland), was an Italian composer and lutenist of the Renaissance and early Baroque periods who worked in Poland.
Life
In various contemporary reports and sources he is often only mentioned as Diomedes. Around 1565 his family, who were Protestant, fled the Inquisition from Veneto to Poland and settled there. Cato came into the service of King Sigismund III as a lutenist . Wasa .
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Cato's compositional work includes polyphonic instrumental and vocal music, including preludes, fantasies, fugues , dances such as gaillards and passamezzos, as well as madrigals . He mixed the style of the late Renaissance with that of the early Baroque as well as Italian idioms with Polish folk themes.
literature
- Piotr Poźniak: "Diomedes Cato", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed January 8, 2006), (subscription access)
- Gustave Reese : Music in the Renaissance . New York, WW Norton & Co., 1954. ISBN 0-393-09530-4
- W. Urban: "Notatki źródłowe o muzykach polskich w XVI wieku" [Notes on 16th century Polish musicians], Muzyka , xxxii / 1 (1987), 57-63 (in Polish)
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Diomedes Cato in the International Music Score Library Project
- Short biography at completorium.republika.pl (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cato, Diomedes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Diomedes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian composer of the late Renaissance |
| DATE OF BIRTH | after 1560 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Treviso |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1618 |