Giovanni Pietro Flaccomio

Giovanni Pietro Flaccomio (* around 1565 in Milazzo, Messina , † 1617 in Turin ) was an Italian conductor and composer.

Life

After training and working in his Sicilian homeland, he was taken over by King Philip III of Spain . appointed as court conductor at his residences in Valladolid and Madrid . Towards the end of his life he returned to Italy and held the office of almsman to the Duke of Savoy. It is likely that Flaccomio not only performed this office there, but also acted as a singer at the court of Turin, because clergymen often combined their service as ecclesiastical Dignitaries with the activity of the singer at court or in the royal chapel.

Stylistically, the arrival of the baroque can already be seen in his work. He created mainly sacred vocal music and also published works by composers from his homeland. Several volumes of his compositions have been lost. The collection Liber primus concentus published in Venice in 1611 , in quibus vespere, misse, sacreque cantiones in nativitate Beatae Mariae Virginis aliarumque virginum festivitatibus decantandi continentur (eight-part, double-choir) and the Il primo libro delli madrigali , three-part with basso continuo have survived.