Lazaro Valvasensi

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Lazaro Girolamo Valvasensi (baptized June 20, 1585 in Valvasone ; † June 26, 1661 ibid) was an Italian organist and composer.

Live and act

Organ from 1533 in Valvasone

Lazaro Valvasensi, the son of Jewish parents, was organist at the cathedral in his hometown Valvasone in 1606 and 1607 at the organ built by Vincenzo Colombo in 1533 . It was around this time that he was ordained a priest. At the time of his first publications he was Kapellmeister at the Cathedral of Sacile , then organist at the Cathedral of Marano Lagunare . From 1624 he was music director and organist in Tolmezzo (Friuli). From 1634 to 1640 he was the organist at the cathedral in his home town of Valvasone. In 1640 he described himself as Academico occulto detto il strauagante . He became a canon at Caorle Cathedral , where he received the title of apostolic protonotary .

Work (selection)

Of Valvasensi's 16 collections of works printed in Venice, seven have been lost. In the foreword to his Concerti ecclesiastici he refers to the model of the works by Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, composed 20 years earlier, and the Seconda pratica named by Claudio Monteverdi .

  • Il primo libro de concerti ecclesiastici, con una messa et litanie (1617)
  • Brevi concerti ecclesiastici alla romana, con una voce sola accutaó grave à comiacenza delli Cantanti op.3 (1620)
  • Letanie della Beata Virgine a cinque voci con un motetto concertato op.4 (1622)
  • Compieta concertata 4v op.5 (1626)
  • Concerti ecclesiastici, (1–2 voci) con alcune symphonie da sonarsi con diversi strromenti 2v. op.6 (1627)
  • Secolo giardino d'amorosi fiori (1–2 voci) op.8 (1634)
  • Terzo giardino (1–2 voci) (1635)
  • Mass concertate (2–4 voci) (1636)
  • Salmi concertati a due voci op.16 (1640)

Web links

Sheet music and audio files by Lazaro Valvasensi in the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae on the Edizioni Carrara website
  2. ↑ Robert Eitner : Biographical-bibliographical source lexicon of musicians and music scholars (1900)
  3. ↑ CV on encyclopedia.com
personal data
SURNAME Valvasensi, Lazaro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Valvasensi, Lazaro Girolamo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer and organist
DATE OF BIRTH baptized June 20, 1585
PLACE OF BIRTH Valvasone
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1661
Place of death Valvasone