Lorenzo Allegri

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Lorenzo Allegri (born November 16, 1567 in Florence , † July 15, 1648 there ) was an Italian lutenist and composer .

Life

Lorenzo Allegri was already active in his youth at the Medici court in Florence. The court chronicler Cesare Tinghi referred to him as Lorenzino todesco del liuto , which suggests that he came from the German-speaking area. From the beginning of 1604 Allegri was listed as court musician on the court's payroll. From 1622 he was as guardaroba della musica responsible for the musical instruments of the court, as well as for the supervision of the pages ( maestro dei paggi ). Together with the choreographer Agnolo Ricci, Allegri was responsible for the musical and dance design of the numerous festivals at the Medici court.

Allegri's work could have influenced the transfer of this new Italian style to the French music of Jean-Baptiste Lully, who lived in Florence as a young man. The young Johann Nauwach , who studied at Allegri from 1614 on the recommendation of the Saxon Elector Johann Georg I , was influenced by him. Nauwax's publications of 1623 and 1627 contain the earliest examples of Italian monodies published in Germany that were known to German texts by a non-Italian.

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Only two vocal works by Allegri have survived, the madrigal Tu piangi al mio partire , for solo voice and basso continuo, the 1614 in Scherzi, aria, canzonette, e madrigali libro secondo op. 10 , an anthology by the composer Antonio Brunelli (1577-1630), was published in Venice. Allegri also created the short stage work Spirto del ciel, scendi volando a noi , for six voices, based on a libretto by Ferdinando Saracinelli.

Allegri's main work is dance music, which was performed at the Medicihof. Between 1608 and 1615 he created the suite-shaped works La notte d'Amore (1608), La serena (1611), in 1613 revised Le ninfe di Senna , Alta Maria (1614), I Campi Elisi (1614) and L'Iride (1615). The works consist mostly of seven dances in different tempos and beats, starting with a Ballo , followed by Galliards , correnti , Canario , Branlen or Gavotten .

Instrumental works

  • Ballo, Gagliarda, Corrente for the Medici wedding 1608
  • Sinfonia per il Gran Principe di Toscana
  • Il primo libro delle musice di Lorenzo Allegri (Venice, 1618)

literature

  • Hermann Beck (1929–1980): Lorenzo Allegris “Primo libro delle musiche” 1618. In: Archiv für Musikwissenschaft , 22 (1965), pp. 99–114.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adelmo Damerini: Lorenzo, detto il Tedeschino o del Liuto , entry in the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 2 (1960) ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.treccani.it
  2. ^ MGG : Volume 1, columns 502-503.
  3. ↑ Edmond Strainchamps: Lorenzo Allegri. In: Grove Music Online .
personal data
SURNAME Allegri, Lorenzo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lorenzino todesco del liuto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian lutenist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1567
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1648
Place of death Florence