Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi
Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi (* around 1544 in Genoa , † June 15, 1587 in Prague ) was an Italian composer and conductor of the Renaissance.
Life
Giovanni Battista Pinello came from a noble Genoese family. He worked first as a singer in Vicenza , from the 1570s at the Innsbruck court, then in Prague at the court of Emperor Rudolf . A few months after Antonio Scandello's death in 1581, he was appointed Kapellmeister to the Dresden court orchestra . Due to disagreements, he soon had to give up this post and settled again in Prague. Pinello was one of the composers who brought the Italian style to the German-speaking world.
Johann Gottfried Walther mentioned the following compositions by Pinello in his “ Musicalisches Lexicon ” from 1732: A four-part mass (1583), a German Magnificat in eight church tones (1584), Cantiones Sacrae and madrigals with eight, ten and fifteen parts (Dresden, 1584 ), the “ New German songs for five voices ” held in the style of the Neapolitan Vilanelles , translated from Italian to be sung and accompanied in the Italian style (Dresden, 1584), Napolitane a cinque voci (Dresden, 1585), Motetii quinque vocum (1588), 18 five-part motets (Prague 1588).
literature
- Moritz Fürstenau : Pinelli (us) de Gerardis, Giovanni Baptista . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 150.
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry in Walther's Lexicon about Pinello, p. 482
- ^ François-Joseph Fétis: Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie génèrale de la musique (1864)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pinello di Ghirardi, Giovanni Battista |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pinello, Giovanni Battista |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian composer and conductor of the Renaissance |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1544 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Genoa |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 15, 1587 |
| Place of death | Prague |