Giulio Zacchino

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Giulio, Zacchino ( Zacchini , Cachino ; * in Trieste , Italy , † after 1580) was a 16th century Italian organist and composer .

Live and act

The dates and place of death of Giulio Zacchino are so far unknown. Almost nothing is known about his living conditions either. In 1571, works by Zacchino and Philipp de Monte were performed in Vienna on the occasion of the wedding of Charles II of Austria to Maria Anna of Bavaria . This speaks for his importance as a composer, because it was an important festival at the Viennese court with three participating court orchestras: Vienna with de Monte as court conductor, Bavaria with Orlando di Lasso and the Graz court orchestra of Charles II.

In 1572 Zacchino was organist in the church of San Giorgio Maggiore on the island of Venice of the same name , where he had his motets dedicated to the Archduke printed in the same year . A year later - in 1573 - he became organist at the Cathedral of Trieste and the Church of San Giusto in the same city. He dedicated a madrigal book to the local bishop Andrea Rapicio . The poet of these madrigals was, according to MGG 1968, Luigi Cassola .

After the bishop's unexpected death in 1573, he must have left Trieste again. Apparently he was soon back in Venice, where he taught the painter Jacopo Tintoretto's daughter Marietta Robusti on spinet , lute and singing. Around 1580 he dedicated motets to Archduke Ferdinand II in Innsbruck and played him on a spinet and a shelf . From his subsequent letter to the Archduke it emerges that the Innsbruck musicians had received him badly by providing him with "instruments that were intentionally incorrectly tuned". It is not known how this episode, which was his artistic performance on various keyboard instruments, behaved exactly.

Works

  • Motetta a 4 vocum noviter in lucem edita 1572
  • Primo libro de madrigali a quattro voci. 1573 (texts: Luigi Cassola)
  • more motets

Literature and Sources

References of the article in ÖML:

  • NGroveD 27 (2001)
  • MGG 14 (1968)
  • Senn 1954 [ Music and theater at the court of Innsbruck. History of the court orchestra from the 15th century to its dissolution in 1748. Österreichische Verlags-Anstalt, Innsbruck 1954.]
  • Federhofer 1967 [ musician and musician at the Graz Habsburg court of the Archdukes Karl and Ferdinand of Inner Austria (1564-1619). Edition Schott 5519]
  • EitnerQ 10 (1904)
  • MGÖ 1 (1995).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Camillo Schaefer : Music of the Habsburgs. (Relates to the music at the wedding of Charles II to Maria Anna of Bavaria in Vienna in 1571)
  2. ^ Carlo Ridolfi-Filippi (ed.): Vite dei Tintoretti de Le Maraviglie dell'arte. Venice 1994; quoted in: Roland Krischel: Tintoretto. [1]
  3. ↑ Details and literature of this article come from Barbara Boisits from: Österreichisches Musiklexikon (online) Access According to MGG 1968, the data are mainly derived from his music prints.
personal data
SURNAME Zacchino, Giulio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zacchini, Giulio; Cachino, Giulio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1580