Giovanni Rovetta

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Title page of a motet collection, 1635

Giovanni Rovetta (* 1596 , † October 23, 1668 in Venice ) was a Venetian composer and singer of the Baroque.

Life

Giovanni Rovetta began his musical career as a boy soprano in St. Mark's Basilica , where his father was already active from 1605. There he was an instrumentalist from 1615 to 1617. On December 17, 1623 he was appointed bass cantor and on November 22, 1626, he was finally appointed vice conductor . Kapellmeister at the time was Claudio Monteverdi , who also taught Rovetta. Rovetta was also active in other areas of the Venetian musical life, so from 1635 he was maestro di musica at the Ospedale dei Dereletti (called Ospedaletto) and from 1639 at the Ospedale dei Mendicanti . As an ordained priest, he was a member of the Congregazione di S. Silvestro. Rovetta, called "Signor Rueti" , replaced Monteverdi in 1644 after he was defeated in the competition by Orazio Benevoli and Giovanni Battista Crivelli (around 1500-1652). He continued this office until his death in 1668. Vice-conductor at this time was his former student Natale Monferrato . His successor in the office of Kapellmeister was Francesco Cavalli .

Rovetta's nephew, Giovanni Battista Volpe , also called Rovettino, held various musical offices in the area of ​​St. Mark's Basilica, he published and edited works by his uncle, namely Op. 9 and Op. 10.

The influence of Monteverdi can be seen in numerous compositions by Rovetta. An important impetus for Rovetta's career was provided in 1638 by the French ambassador in Venice, who commissioned Rovetta to deliver the music for the birth of the French heir to the throne Louis XIV . He then published his music collection Messa, e salmi concertati , which contains a mass , twelve Vespers and a Magnificat . He also published four motets and three madrigal collections . He also composed two operas that are now lost.

Works (selection)

  • Motet collections:
    • Salmi concertati con motetti et alcune canzoni op.1 , 1626 ( Salmi concertati a cinqve et sei voci et altri con doi violini, con motetti à doi é tre voci, et alcune canzoni per sonar à tre è quatro voci con basso continuo ), again Published: Magni Venezia 1641, as facsimile: Verlag Bernd Christoph Becker Cologne 2007
    • Motetti concertati con le litanie della madonna et una messa concertata op.3 , Vincenzi Venezia 1635, as facsimile: Verlag Bernd Christoph Becker Cologne 2007
    • Messa e salmi concertati op.4 , Vincenti Venezia 1639, as a facsimile: Verlag Bernd Christoph Becker Cologne 2007, published in Journal of the seventeenth Century , edited by Linda Maria Koldau , ISBN 0-89579-478-0 (part 1), ISBN 0-89579-479-9 (part 2)
    • Motetti concertati con le letanie della madona op.5 , Vincenti Venezia 1639, as facsimile: Verlag Bernd Christoph Becker Cologne 2007
    • Salmi aggiontovi un Laudate pueri & Laudate Dominum omnes gentes op.7 , Vincenti Venezia 1642, as facsimile: Verlag Bernd Christoph Becker Cologne 2007
    • Salmi op.8 , Vincenti Venezia 1644, as facsimile: Verlag Bernd Christoph Becker Cologne 2007
    • Delli salmi .... accommodati da cantarsi alla breve secondo l'usi della Serenissima capella ducale di S.Marco op.12 , 1662
    • Motets, op.10 , Vincenti Venezia 1647, as facsimile: Verlag Bernd Christoph Becker Cologne 2007
    • Motets, op.11 , Vincenti Venezia 1650, as facsimile: Verlag Bernd Christoph Becker Cologne 2007
    • O Maria, quam pulchra es , Edmund Bieler, Cologne 1996
  • Madrigal collections:
    • Madrigali concertati con un dialogo nel fine & una cantata op.2 , Magni Venezia 1636, as facsimile: Verlag Bernd Christoph Becker Cologne 2007
    • Madrigali concertati et nel fine una cantata op.6 , Vincenti Venezia 1640, as facsimile: Verlag Bernd Christoph Becker Cologne 2007
    • Madrigals, op.9 , Vincenti Venezia 1645, as facsimile: Verlag Bernd Christoph Becker Cologne 2007
  • Festival music for the birth of the heir to the French throne in 1638
  • Two operas (between 1645 and 1650)
    • Ercole in Lidia (1645 Venice, Teatro Novissimo)

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personal data
SURNAME Rovetta, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venetian baroque composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1596
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1668
Place of death Venice