Francesco Patavino

Francesco Patavino (last name also da Santa Croce , Santacroce or Pandulfis ) (* around 1487 or 1497 in Padua , † possibly 1556 in Loreto ) was an Italian composer and clergyman of the Renaissance .

Life

Francesco Patavino was born in Santa Croce, a suburb of Padua , towards the end of the 15th century . Sometimes the year of his birth is also given as 1478, which is probably a modern error. Details about his youth and musical training are not known. He appeared for the first time in 1511 as cantor and priest at the Cathedral of Padua . There he remained until July 1512, when he became Maestro di Capella at the Church of San Francesco in Trevisowas chosen. However, he only remained in this position until June 1513, so his track will be lost for a few years. In April 1520 he reappeared as Kapellmeister in Treviso, this time at the cathedral. His presence in Treviso is then documented until 1528.

This was followed by a decade of constant change of location. In June 1528 Patavino moved to the Church of San Zanipolo in Venice as Maestro di canto , but only stayed there until April 1529, when he became Kapellmeister at the Cathedral of Chioggia . In March 1531, he again traveled further, this time at the Cathedral of Udine , where he's visitation just a simple singer, but also for constitutional unspecified hymnals was (not necessarily with his own compositions) responsible. Patavino did not stay long in Udine either, in July 1533 he traveled on to Gemona , where he directed the cathedral music. His departure from Udine was marked by conflicts with the city council - Patavino had passed on benefices from a chapel for which he was responsible to a local priest and was therefore suspected of simony . The following argument dragged on until 1537. In the summer of the same year Patavino left Gemona and returned to Treviso, where he was again active as bandmaster. In documents from Treviso it can be traced back to 1551, after which it is lost. According to a note by the contemporary Paduan chronicler Bernardino Scardeone ( De antiquitate urbis Patavii ), Francesco Patavino was a canon at the Basilica of the Holy House in Loreto in 1556 , but this is uncertain.

Compositional creation

Francesco Patavino composed both sacred and secular music. In the area of ​​church music he is important as an early representative of the Cori-Spezzati technique , in which two or more complete choirs were placed in different places in the church to enable echoes and other compositional effects. Of his religious compositions, five eight-part (with coro speczato ) settings of psalms for Vespers , another several Sunday completes (also eight-part with coro speczato ) and five motets (four or five parts) are known; another five compositions are assigned to him through style comparisons.

Seven frottoles , simple four-part songs by Pataviono are known of secular compositions . Three of them were published in 1526 in the Libro primo de la Croce , an important publication for the development of this form of song into a madrigal .

Web links

• Sheet music and audio files by Francesco Patavino in the International Music Score Library Project
• Sheet music in the public domain by Francesco Patavino in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Prizer, William F. (Ed.): Libro primo de la croce. Canzoni, frottole, and capitoli . AR Editions, Madison, Wis. 1978, ISBN 0-89579-101-3 , pp. VIII ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
2. ^ ^{A b c d} Franco Colussi: Santacroce (Santa Croce), Francesco. In: Dizionario biografico dei friulani. Retrieved November 18, 2019 (Italian). 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Francesco Patavino: Biografia - Catalogo Concerto. In: Concertoclassics.it. Retrieved November 18, 2019 (Italian). 
4. ↑ La storia di Francesco Patavino, sacerdote e cantore della città. In: Padova Oggi. September 20, 2017, accessed November 18, 2019 (Italian).