Giovanni Francesco Anerio

Giovanni Francesco Anerio (born July 7, 1569 in Rome ; buried on June 12, 1630 in Graz ) was an Italian conductor and composer .

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Giovanni Francesco Anerio was the younger brother of Felice Anerio , who succeeded Palestrina as papal composer. He was a member of the Capella Giulia under Palestrina from 1575 to 1579 .

Anerio expressed his desire to become a cleric early on and received the tonsure on December 12th, 1583, he was only made a deacon in 1617 and only a week later, on July 24th, he was ordained a priest. He is said to have celebrated his first Holy Mass on August 7th. All of Rome's musicians sang in eight choirs on this occasion .

In 1585 he is said to have been miraculously cured of a serious illness by Filippo Neri . Therefore, Anerio maintained close contacts with the Oratory of St. Filippo Neri , where he appeared with his brothers at Filipo Neri's beatification in 1595 . At that time he was in the service of Cardinal Antonio Maria Galli (1553-1620). Until 1599 he worked full-time for the oratorio , after which he had a job with Duke Massimiliano Caffarelli in Rome. From 1601 to 1603, Anerio was Francesco Soriano's successor , Kapellmeister in the Lateran Basilica . From November 1605 to January 1610 he was the successor of Vincenzo de Grandis Kapellmeister at Santo Spirito in Sassia . In 1609 he stayed in Verona for a short time, returned to Sassia and then held the position of Kapellmeister of the Verona Cathedral for the whole of 1610. In Verona in 1610 he was appointed Maestro di musica della Accademia Filarmonica of the city. For the Accademia , for an annual fee of 30 ducats, he had to set madrigals and poetry to music and lead the academy's music events every Wednesday. At the end of 1610 he was in Rome for a short time to oversee the publication of a collection of works. On May 14, 1611 he left Verona for good and was then musicae praefectus [music prefect] at the Collegio Romano in Rome. From 1613 to 1620 he was Kapellmeister at the Church of Santa Maria dei Monti . In June 1624 he took part as organist in the dressing ceremony for the novices of the San Teonisto convent in Treviso .

Also in 1624, in a long line of Italian predecessors, he was choirmaster of King Sigismund III. Wasa of Poland and Sweden in Warsaw . In the office, which he had to give up probably for health reasons in 1628, his student Marco Scacchi probably followed on his recommendation . On his way home to Rome, he died near Graz, where, according to church records, he was buried by Dominicans in the cemetery of the Church of St. Andrä .

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In 1607 the tablature collection Gagliarde intavolate per sonare sul harpsichord e Liuto, available in the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek Berlin, was published in Venice . Anerio was a more progressive composer than his brother Felice at an early age; in his motet book from 1611 there are several works in which he uses the contemporary concertato style. His most important and progressive works are to be found for use in the oratorios, especially the work Teatro armonico spirituale of 1619. Anerio also wrote in a more conservative style, such as masses , madrigals , spiritual dialogues, responsories, 4 passions, litanies and other church works. Anerio was one of the progressive composers of his time who made the transition from the Palestrina style to the compositional styles of the first decades of the 17th century, similar to Antonio Cifra .

Modern sheet music editions (selection)

• Cantate Domino (Psalm 98) for soprano, alto, tenor and bass, edited by Mike Ware, published in 2015 by Carl Fischer Verlag ISBN 978-0-8258-9818-1
• Christ factus est . Contained in Zebulon M. Highben: Augsburg Motet Book, Augsburg Fortress, 2013 ISBN 978-1-4514-2370-9

Recordings (selection)

• Requiem. Missa pro defunctis . 1990 by Westminster Cathedral Choir (1961 *) 1990 under the direction of James O'Donnell by the label Hyperion Records recorded .

Literature.

• Hellmuth Federhoffer: A contribution to the biography of Giovanni Francesco Anerio . In: The music research. Volume 2, No. 2/4, 1949, ISSN  0027-4801 , pp. 210-213, JSTOR 41112869
• Hellmuth Federhoffer: Again on the biography of Giovanni Francesco Anerio . In: The music research. Volume 6, No. 4, 1953, ISSN  0027-4801 , pp. 210-213, JSTOR 41113087
• Liliana Panella: ANERIO, Giovanni Francesco in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani , 1961

Web links

• Sheet music and audio files by Giovanni Francesco Anerio in the International Music Score Library Project
• Sheet music in the public domain by Giovanni Francesco Anerio in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fabrizio Mastroianni, Ritrovata la data di nascita di Giovanni Francesco Anerio , in Tra musica e storia. Saggi di varia umanità in ricordo di Saverio Franchi , a cura di Giancarlo Rostirolla e Elena Zomparelli, Roma, Ibimus, 2007, p. 159.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Liliana Pannella: ANERIO, Giovanni Francesco in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (1961)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Hellmuth Federhofer: A contribution to the biography of Giovanni Francesco Anerio . In: The music research . tape 2 , no. 2/4 , 1949, ISSN  0027-4801 , p. 210-213 , JSTOR : 41112869 .
4. ^ Adalbert Quadt : Lute music from the Renaissance. According to tablature ed. by Adalbert Quadt. Volume 1 ff. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1967 ff .; 4th edition ibid 1968, Volume 2, pp. 20 f. (3 Gagliarden) and 64.
5. ↑ Hellmut Federhofer: Again on the biography of Giovanni Francesco Anerio . In: The music research . tape 6 , no. 4 , 1953, ISSN  0027-4801 , pp. 346-347 , JSTOR : 41113087 .