Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi

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Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi

Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (* around 1553 in Caravaggio , Lombardy , † January 4, 1609 in Mantua ) was an Italian singer and composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods .

Life

Born in Lombardy, Gastoldi came to Mantua with his father Manfredo Gastoldi, where he received his musical training and studied theology as a choirboy at the Basilica of Santa Barbara. In 1572 Gastoldi became a subdeacon, in 1574 a deacon and a year later he was ordained a priest. Gastoldi received benefices , connected with the obligation to give singing lessons to the choirboys.

As a member of the band, he participated in the composition of the repertoire requested by Duke Guglielmo Gonzaga (who was also a composer himself). An attempt made by Cardinal Karl Borromeo in 1582 to bring Gastoldi to Milan was unsuccessful. Because of incorrectly reproduced information in the " Ateneo dei letterati milanesi adunati dall'abbate Don Filippo Picinelli " from 1670, Johann Gottfried Walther wrote in his musicians' lexicon in 1732 that he was "a famous composer at Mayland Cathedral ", although Gastoldi had been his entire life had only worked in Mantua.

Due to several serious illnesses and absences of the conductor Giaches de Wert , Gastoldi had to represent him more frequently in the period from 1582 to 1586. In 1588 Gastoldi de Wert received the position of Kapellmeister to S. Barbara in Mantua and held this office until his death.

In addition to his work at S. Barbara, he composed numerous important secular works for the needs of the court of Prince Vincenzo I Gonzaga , who had ruled since 1588 , and where important composers such as Benedetto Pallavicino (around 1551–1601) and the young Claudio Monteverdi worked at that time .

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Gastoldi was best known for his balletti and the “ madrigal comedies ” (forerunners of opera), which were reprints in many cities in Europe as early as the 17th century, while his church compositions were long overlooked by musicologists.

Works (selection)

Secular works

  • Canzoni a 5 voci (Venice, 1581, libretto by Angelo Gardano , dedicato al Principe di Mantova)
  • Il primo libro de madrigali a 5 voci (1588, libretto by Ricciardo Amadino )
  • Il secondo libro de madrigali a 5 voci (1589)
  • Balletti a 5 voci (1591, dedicato al Duca di Mantova Vincenzo I. Gonzaga)
  • Il primo libro de madrigali a 6 voci (Venezia, 1592, libretto by Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Il primo libro de canzonette a 3 voci (1594)
  • Il secondo libro de canzonette a 3 voci (1595)
  • Il terzo libro de madrigali a 5 voci (Venice, 1598, libretto by Ricciardo Amadino, dedicato a Francesco Gonzaga )
  • Il primo libro della musica a 2 voci (Milan, 1598)
  • Ballet music to Gioco della Cieca rappresentato alla regina di Spagna , to Il pastor fido by Guarini (1598)
  • Il quarto libro de madrigali a 5 voci (1602)
  • Concerti Musicale, con le sue symphony a 8 voci (1604)
  • Il terzo libro de canzonette a 3 voci (Milan, 1595)
  • Il quarto libro de canzonette a 3 voci (Milan, 1596)

Sacred works

  • Sacrae Lodi a diversi Santi (1587)
  • Psalmi ad vesperas a 4 voci (1588)
  • Completorium solemnitatum Vespertina psalmodia (1589)
  • Il secondo libro de Completorium (1597)
  • Il primo libro de Mass a 5 et a 8 voci (1600)
  • Tutti li Salmi che nelle solennità del anno al Vespro si cantano a 8 voci (1601)
  • Missarum quatuor vocibis, liber primo, (1602 and 1611)
  • Vespertina omnium solemnitatum Psalmodia a 5 voci (1602)
  • Il primo libro de Messe et Moteti a 8 voci (1607)
  • Officium defunctorum integrum a 4 voci (1607)
  • Salmi interi a 6 voci
  • Salmi per tutti li Vespri a 2 voci (1609)
  • Salmi per tutto l'anno a 5 voci

Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi melody and set of Balletto originate A Lieta Vita, which in the German language under the title In dir ist Freude ( EC 398; dt. Text Cyriakus Schneegass ) as a hymn became known. Another German version under the title On bright days comes from Peter Cornelius . His other works include the songs Amor Vittorioso (Eng .: Amor im Nachen , text: Peter Cornelius), La Cortegiana (The Court Lady), Speme amorosa (Hope of Love), Il Curioso, Il Tedesco, L'Invaghito, Questa dolce Sirena and L'Humorista, all of which can be attributed to the Renaissance.

literature

Web links

Commons : Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Gottfried Walther: Musicalisches Lexicon or Musicalische Bibliothec ... Wolffgang Deer, Leipzig 1732, p. 147 ( online at Wikimedia Commons , PDF, 45 MB).
  2. ^ Gunther Morche:  Gastoldi, Castoldo, Giovanni 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 , Sp. 596-599 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
personal data
SURNAME Gastoldi, Giovanni Giacomo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian singer, conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1553
PLACE OF BIRTH Caravaggio , Lombardy
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1609
Place of death Mantua