Lorenzo Penna (composer)

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Lorenzo Penna after a contemporary woodcut.

Lorenzo Penna OCarm (* 1613 in Bologna ; † October 31, 1693 ibid) was an Italian composer and music theorist .

Life

Lorenzo Penna

Nothing is known about Lorenzo Penna's early life. Assuming that Lorenzo was probably his religious name , he could possibly be identified with a Vincenzo Penna, who, according to the baptismal register of Bologna Cathedral , was born on January 23, 1613. In 1630 Penna entered the Carmelite monastery of S. Martino in Bologna as a novice and made profession the following year . From 1639 to 1642 he was the novice master of the monastery. In 1656 he worked as maestro di cappella at S. Ilario in Casale Monferrato . In 1665 he received his doctorate in theology from the University of Ferrara . From 1667 to 1669 he was maestro di cappella at S. Cassiano in Imola . He then belonged to the Carmelite monastery in Mantua until 1672 , and from 1672/1673 he was maestro di cappella at the religious church of Parma . He then returned to Bologna, where he presumably spent the rest of his life. He was a member of the Accademia dei Filaschisi in Bologna and the Accademia dei Risoluti and, from 1676, the Accademia Filarmonica .

The majority of his compositional work includes sacred choral music, which hardly had any effect beyond his personal sphere of activity. His only instrumental works are the Correnti Francesi , which he composed for the wedding of Alessandro Sanvitali, Count of Fontanellato . The fact that he also referred to the 25 short Correnti as sonata shows that he may not have had any contact with the Bolognese school and its development of the modern violin sonata .

In contrast, his musical textbooks were influential in his time. His Albori musicali appeared in 1672 in three volumes, which consist of a general theory of music, a theory of polyphonic composition and a theory of figured bass accompaniment . The work had at least five editions by 1696 and was also reprinted in Antwerp and Venice, as well as in extracts in French translation. His second textbook is the Direttorio del Canto Fermo , which is aimed at singers and composers of church music, but did not spread the Albori musicali .

Works

Compositions

  • Messe e salmi concertati, 5vv , 2vn ad lib, bc, op.1 Milan 1656.
  • Psalmorum totius anni modulatio, una cum missa, et falsis bordon, 4 / 5vv, op.3. Milan 1669.
  • Correnti francesi, 2 vn, violetta, vle, bc (hpd), op.7.Bologna 1673.
  • Il sacro parnaso delli salmi, 4, 8vv, op.8.Bologna 1677.
  • Reggia del sacro parnaso… ordinate in messe piene e brevi, 4, 8vv, op. 9. Bologna 1677.
  • Galeria del sacro parnaso ornata con adornamenti di messe piene, e brevi, 4, 8vv, insts, op.10.Bologna 1678.
  • Messa ... a capella, 4–5vv. Bologna 1679 (lost).

Fonts

  • Li primi albori musicali per li principianti della musica figurata. Bologna 1672.
  • Direttorio del canto fermo. Modena 1689.

literature

  • François-Joseph Fétis: Biography universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique. 2nd Edition. 6th volume (Martini - Pérolle). Firmin Didot, Paris 1864, p. 479 f. ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
  • Josef-Horst Lederer : Lorenzo Penna and his counterpoint theory. Graz, Univ., Diss., 1970.
  • Josef-Horst Lederer: On the life story of Lorenzo Pennas: a biographical-bibliographical study. In: Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch, 55 (1971), ISSN  0075-6199 , pp. 25-31.
  • Josef-Horst Lederer: On Lorenzo Penna's counterpoint theory. In: Studien zur Musikwissenschaft, 28 (1977), ISSN  0930-9578 , pp. 105-113 ( JSTOR 41466916 ).
  • Francesco Lora:  PENNA, Lorenzo. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 82:  Pazzi-Pia. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2015.
  • Fritz Oberdörffer, SL:  Penna, Lorenzo. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 13 (Paladilhe - Ribera). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7618-1133-0 , Sp. 271-272 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Francesco Lora:  Penna, Lorenzo. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 82:  Pazzi-Pia. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Penna, Lorenzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian musician, composer, music theorist
DATE OF BIRTH 1613
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1693
Place of death Bologna