Francesco da Milano

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Francesco da Milano

Francesco Canova da Milano , usually just called Francesco da Milano (born August 18, 1497 in Monza , † April 15, 1543 in Milan ) was an important Italian composer and lutenist of the Renaissance .

Life

Francesco da Milano was born on August 18, 1497 as the son of the musician Benedetto Canova in Monza, a suburb of Milan. Giovanno Testagrossa (1470–1530), himself a lutenist at the court of Beatrice and Isabelle d'Este in Mantua , supervised his musical education. Around 1519 Francesco entered the service of Pope Leo X. He probably stayed in Rome during the reign of Hadrian VI. and Clement VII. In the late 20s of the 16th century he returned to northern Italy, his presence in Piacenza is documented in 1528, and in 1530 he was cathedral organist in Milan. From 1535 he was back in Rome as lutenist and viola player of Cardinal Ippolito de 'Medici and as teacher of Pope Paul III's nephew . , Ottavio Farnese. In 1538 he accompanied the Pope to a meeting between Charles V and Francis I in Nice. Francesco da Milano died on April 15, 1543, survived by his father who erected a tombstone for him in the church of Santa Maria della Scala in Milan.

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The compositions of Francesco da Milanos consist entirely of the related musical forms ricercar , fantasy and toccata for the renaissance lute . These are compositions with a contrapuntal structure that are influenced by the motet . Francesco da Milano's works can be found in over 40 different tablatures printed between 1536 (by Giovanni Antonio Casteliono in Milan and Marcolini in Venice) and 1603, in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and the Netherlands. There are also 25 different manuscripts that are similarly spread out. During his lifetime he was given the nickname il Divino ("the divine", an epitaph that he shares with Michelangelo Buonarotti ) because of his incomparable game . Lucas Guarico, the astrologer of Francesco's patron Pope Paul III, considered him "the most important and most important musician of all, (...) better than Orpheus and Apollo when he plays the lute or another instrument" . Today his compositions are mostly played on the lute or guitar .

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  • Francesco Da Milano, Fantasien and Ricercar , H. Ruhe, R. Evers, Moeck
  • Francesco da Milano: [Three] Ricerare. (Marcolini, Venice 1536). In: Ruggero Chiesa (ed.): Antologia di Musica Antica per liuto, vihuela e chitarra. Volume 1. Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Milan 1969, pp. 20-29.
  • Ruggero Chiesa (Ed.): Francesco Da Milano, Opere complete per liuto. 2 volumes. Editioni Suvini Zerboni, Milan.
  • Arthur J. Nees (Ed.): The Lute Music of Francesco Canova da Milano (1497-1543). 2 volumes in one. Harvard Publications in Music, Cambridge (Massachusetts) 1970.
  • Frances Mattingly, Reginald Smith Brindle: Antonio Casteliono : Intabolatura de Leuto de Diversi Autori. (1536). Trascrizione in notazione moderna di Reginald Smith Brindle. Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Milan (1974) 1978, especially pp. IX (foreword) and XII (biographical notes), notes: pp. 1–4, 38–41, 89–95, and 106–109.

Web links

Commons : Francesco Canova da Milano  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reginald Smith Brindle: Forward. In: the same (ed.): Antonio Castelioni, Intabolatura de Leuto de Diversi Autori. Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Milan 1978 (= Edizioni Suvini Zerboni. Volume 7922), pp. IX – XIV, here: p. IX.
  2. ^ Intabolatura di Liuto de Diversi […] di M. Francesco da Milano.
personal data
SURNAME Milano, Francesco there
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Milano, Francesco Canova da (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Renaissance composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1497
PLACE OF BIRTH Monza
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1543
Place of death Milan