Giovanni Battista Mazzaferrata

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Giovanni Battista Mazzaferrata (* before 1640; † probably 1681, probably in Ferrara ) was an Italian composer and conductor .

Life

There is only sparse information about Mazzaferrata's life, the life dates given in older reference works cannot be proven. Tarquinio Merula is named as the teacher . In 1658 Mazzaferrata became Kapellmeister at Vercelli Cathedral , where he may have previously worked as choir regent. He was also a music teacher at the episcopal seminary. From 1665 he was recorded as organist and a few years later as conductor of the influential brotherhood Accademia della Morte in Ferrara . In 1681, possibly shortly after his death, Giuseppe Felice Tosi occupied this position as Kapellmeister . Pietro Simone Agostini is considered to be his student . The frontispiece of a reprint of his Madrigals Op. 2 from 1683, identifies him as the late Kapellmeister of the Accademia della Morte .

Several collections of sacred and secular vocal works as well as a collection of three-part instrumental music are known from Mazzaferrata. Only the printed libretti of the oratorios ascribed to him have survived.

Works (selection)

vocal

  • Sacri concerti a voce sola opera prima (Milan, 1661)
  • Il primo libro a due, e tre voci amorosi e morali (Bologna, 1668, 1675, 1683)
  • Canzonette, e cantate a due voci opera terza (Bologna, 1668, 1675, 1680)
  • Il primo libro delle cantate da camera a voce sola, opera quarta (Bologna, 1673, 1677, 1683)
  • Salmi concertati a tre e quattro voci con violini, opera sesta (Bologna, 1676, 1684)
  • Cantate morali e spirituali a due e tre voci, opera settima (Bologna, 1680, 1690)
  • Motet Plaudite caeli for soprano and 2 violins, in Motetti sagri (1695)

Instrumental

  • Il primo libro delle sonate a due violini e bc con un bassetto viola se piace, opera quinta (Bologna, 1674, 1678, 1688)

Oratorios (libretti)

  • La santa Teresia (Ferrara, 1677)
  • L'efficacia delle fede nella resurrezione di Lazaro (Ferrara, 1677; Siena 1684)
  • Il David (Florence, 1693)
  • La caduta di David (in Oratori sacri , Lucca 1715)

expenditure

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sergio Monaldini: Entry in the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 72 (2008)
  2. ↑ The music in past and present , 2nd edition, Volume 11, Column 11423-1424
personal data
SURNAME Mazzaferrata, Giovanni Battista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH before 1640
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1681
Place of death unsure: Ferrara