Giacomo Finetti
Giacomo Finetti (* in Ancona ; first proven 1605 ; † 1631 ) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque .
Life
Giacomo Finetti belonged to the Franciscan order and was choirmaster at the Cathedral of Jesi in 1605 and 1606 and at SS Sacramento in Ancona from 1609 to 1612. Finetti spent the rest of his life in Venice, as organist at Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari and as musical director at Ca 'Grande, which was a monastery at the time. Finetti was one of the most prolific composers of liturgical music in northern Italy at a time when the concertato style was taking hold. The simple, yet deeply felt music of contemporary Claudio Monteverdi's was widespread in the first half of the 17th century, also north of the Alps.
Works
- Completorium, for 5 voices (Venice, 1605)
- Orationes vespertinae, 4 voices (Venice, 1606)
- Omnia in noctis Nativitatis Domini, 5 voices (Venice, 1609)
- Psalmi ad Vesperas, 8 parts (Venice, 1611)
- Motecta, 2vv, bc per organum ad lib (Venice, 1611)
- Concerti, 4vv, bc per organum (Venice, 1612)
- Sacrae cantiones, 2vv, bc per organum, bk3 (Venice, 1613)
- Sacrarum cantionum, 3vv, bc per organum, bk4 (Venice, 1613)
- Salmi, 3 voices and Bc per organum (Venice, 1618)
- Concerti ecclesiastici, 2-4 parts and Bc per organum (Antwerp, 1621)
- Corona Mariae, 4 voices, (Venice, 1622)
- Motetti, concerti et psalmi, 2, 4 and 8 parts, in 7 volumes (Frankfurt, 1631)
- Tripartus SS. Concentuum fasciculus (Frankfurt, 1621); the collection contains other works by Pietro Lappi and Giulio Belli
- Exercitatis musica (Magdeburg, 1624, 2 motets)
literature
- "The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians, 1st Edition"
- Fulvia Morabito, Gunther Morche: Finetti, Giacomo. 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)
- Rossella Pelagalli: FINETTI, Giacomo. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 48: Filoni-Forghieri. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1997.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Finetti, Giacomo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian composer of the early baroque |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1605 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ancona |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1631 |