Fabrizio Fontana
Fabrizio Fontana (born around 1620 in Turin ; died December 28, 1695 in Rome ) was an Italian organist and composer .
life and work
Fabrizio Fontana, ordained a priest, was among the members of the Academy di S. Cecilia in Rome as organist . He worked in the Chiesa Nuova until 1657 , from where he was to replace Alessandro Costantini (1581–1657) in St. Peter's Basilica . In 1692 he became organist of the Church of Santa Maria dell'Anima , the German national church in Rome.
Fontana published a collection of 12 Ricercari (Rome, 1677), which were inspired by Girolamo Frescobaldi 's antico e grave style and have roughly the same structure as his Ricercari. In terms of contrapuntal they are very artistically worked. In the anthology of old and new music for piano ( Ricordi ) edited by Gino Tagliapietra , three of his Ricercari (II, X, XI) were included.
See also
- Alessandro Costantini (Italian)
- Library of the Liceo Martini (Bologna)
literature
- Willi Apel (Ed.): The Harvard Dictionary of Music. 4th ed. 2003 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
- Gotthold Frotscher , SL: Fontana, Fabrizio. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 7 (Franco - Gretry). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7618-1117-9 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
- Marc Honegger: Dictionnaire de la musique , Tome 1, Les Hommes et leurs œuvres. A – K. Bordas, 1979, ISBN 2-0401-0721-5 .
- Rossella Pelagalli: FONTANA, Fabrizio. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 48: Filoni-Forghieri. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1997.
- Gino Tagliapietra (Ed.): Anthology of old and new music for piano. German text translated and revised by Willi Apel . Sixth volume. Ricordi, Milan 1934.
Web links
- Cronologia degli organisti
- Sheet music and audio files by Fabrizio Fontana in the International Music Score Library Project
References and footnotes
- ↑ cf. Rainer Heyink: Festival and music as a means of imperial power politics. The House of Habsburg and the German National Church in Rome S. Maria dell'Anima ( Viennese publications on musicology, vol. 44). Publisher Hans Schneider, Tutzing 2011.
- ↑ Tagliapietra, p. 100 ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fontana, Fabrizio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian organist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1620 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1695 |
| Place of death | Rome |