Girolamo Parabosco
Girolamo or Gerolamo, also Hieronimus or Hieronimo Parabosco (* approx. 1524 - † April 21, 1557) was an Italian author , composer , organist and poet of the Renaissance .
He was born in Piacenza as the son of a well-known organist Vincenzo Parabosco. The exact date and year of birth are unknown and the information in the literature varies between 1520 and 1524. Not much is known about his childhood, but he went to Venice for his musical education at an early age and is mentioned as a student of Adrian Willaert , the Founder of the Venetian School at the end of 1541. In 1546 he visited Florence as a guest of Francesco Corteccia , a musician in the service of the Medici and at the same time the leading musician of the city. After traveling through the northern Italian cities, he returned to Venice and became the first organist at St. Mark's Basilica , which was one of the most famous musical locations in Italy of its time. He stayed there until the end of his life and died in Venice in 1557.
He wrote poetry and comedies in prose , but the best known is I Diporti , a collection of stories modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron , told by a hunting party stuck on one of the islands in the Venetian lagoon due to the weather .
Of his compositions, a book with madrigals for five voices, published in 1546, other madrigals published in 1541 and 1544, as well as some instrumentals, has survived. The style of the madrigals is similar to that of Willaert, but more densely polyphonic than that of his teacher. They resemble more motets than most of the other madrigals written in Italy in the early 1540s. One of his instrumental pieces is a ricercar based on the Latin antiphon Da pacem Domine (give us peace). It is possibly written at the end of the war between Venice and the Ottomans in 1540 .
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- The Humor of Italy , A. Werner
- H. Colin Slim: "Girolamo Parabosco", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed January 3, 2008), (subscription access)
- Alfred Einstein, The Italian Madrigal. Three volumes. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1949. ISBN 0-691-09112-9
Individual evidence
Web links
- Works by and about Girolamo Parabosco in the catalog of the German National Library
- Girolamo Parabosco in HOASM (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Parabosco, Girolamo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Parabosco, Gerolamo; Parabosco, Hieronimus; Parabosco, Hieronimo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian author, composer, organist and poet of the Renaissance |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1524 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Piacenza |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1557 |
| Place of death | Venice |