Giovanni Battista Riccio

Giovanni Battista Riccio (also: Rizzo, * around 1570 , † 1621 ) was an Italian composer, organist and violinist of the early Baroque.

Life

Giovanni Battista Riccio worked as a musician in Venice . At the Scuola di San Giovanni Evangelista he was given the position of organist in 1609, although the contract identified him as a violinist. Riccio composed three books of instrumental and vocal music that were published in Venice. In his works for wind instruments, he leaned on the style of Giovanni Gabrieli .

Ricci's best-known collection today is the “ Terzo libro delle Divine Lodi ” with 36 vocal works and 12 instrumental pieces. The instrumental works are mostly based on the principle of the trio sonata ; recorders, violins, prongs , bassoon or dulcian and figured bass are required as instruments . Rather seldom for the Venetian tradition of his time was the use of recorders, which he used in a canzona for two flutes, with the title " La Canzone Grimantea con il Tremolo ". The individual pieces are often dedicated to Venetian composers such as Giovanni Picchi , Alessandro Grandi , Giovanni Battista Grillo (“La Grileta a 2 Violini in Ecco” for 2 violins and B. c. ) Or Giacomo Finetti . Ricci's late works use the style of the so-called Seconda pratica , whose advocate and namesake was Claudio Monteverdi .

Works

• Primo libro delle Divine Lodi (Venice, 2nd edition 1612)
• Il secondo libro delle Divine Lodi (Venice, 1614)
• Il terzo libro delle Divine Lodi (Venice, 1620 and 1621)

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• Eleanor Selfridge-Field : in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Web links

• Sheet music and audio files by Giovanni Battista Riccio in the International Music Score Library Project