Luca Bati

Luca Bati (* around 1546 probably in Florence ; † October 17, 1608 ibid) was an Italian composer and music teacher at the transition between the Renaissance and Baroque periods .

No baptismal document has come down to us from Luca Bati, but he described himself as a Florentine, and in his application from April 20, 1571 for the position of choirmaster at Santo Stefano in Pisa, he stated his age at 25. In the same letter he mentioned that he had been a student of Francesco Corteccia for many years . From the 1580s onwards, Bati took an active part in Florentine musical life. In 1599 he was appointed maestro di capella of both the Medici court and the cathedral of Florence . Bati is considered to be the innovator of the Florentine madrigal and thus paved the way for the works of his student Marco da Gagliano .

Works (selection)

• II primo libro de Madrigali 5 voci (contains 23 madrigals by Bati and one each by Neri Alberti and Antonio Bicci ), Venice 1594
• II secondo libro de Madrigali 5 voci (contains 21 madrigals by Bati and one by Piero Strozzi ), Venice, 1598
• Music for the intermedia to Giovan Maria Cecchi's Rappresentazione sacra Esaltazione della Croce , Florence, 1589
• Music for Gino Ginori's Mascherata Le fiamme d'amore , Florence, 1595
• 3. u. 4th choir for Il Rapimento di Cefalo (text by Gabriello Chiabrera , music mainly by Giulio Caccini with the assistance of Stefano Venturi del Nibbio and Piero Strozzi), Florence, 1600

literature

• Fabio Bisogni:  Luca Bati. In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). First edition, Volume 15 (Supplement 1: Aachen - Dyson). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1973, DNB 550439609 , Sp. 549–550 (= Digital Library Volume 60, pp. 6.037–6.040)
• DS Burchart: Luca Bati and the Late Cinquecento Madrigal in Florence . In: S. Gmeinwieser, D. Hiley, J. Riedlbauer (eds.): Musicologia humana. Studies in honor of Warren and Ursula Kirkendale . Olschki, Florenz 1994, ISBN 88-222-4234-3 , p. 251-273 .
• PN Cianfogni, D. Moreni: Memorie istoriche dell'ambrosiana basilica di S. Lorenzo in Firenze . 3 volumes, 1804–1817. Florence.
• F. D'Accone: The Sources of Luca Bati's Sacred Music at the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore . In: R. Charteris (Ed.): Essays on Italian Music in the Cinquecento (=  Altro polo. A volume of Italian studies ). Sydney 1990, ISBN 0-949269-99-9 , pp. 159-177 .
• Alfred Einstein: The Italian Madrigal . 2nd Edition. tape II . Princeton University Press, 1971, ISBN 0-691-09112-9 , pp. 732 f .
• R. Gandolfi: La Cappella Musicale della Corte di Toscana (1539-1859) . In: Rivista Musicale Italiana . tape 16 , 1909.
• P. Gargiulo: Luca Bati, madrigalista fiorentino . Olschki, Florence 1991, ISBN 88-222-3859-1 .
• F. Ghisi: Luca Bati Maestro della Cappella Granducale di Firenze . In: Revue Belge de Musicologie . tape 8 , 1954, pp. 106-108 .
• David Nutter:  Bati, Luca. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 2 (Bagatti - Bizet). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1112-8 , Sp. 471–473 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

Web links

• Sheet music and audio files by Luca Bati in the International Music Score Library Project
• Edmond Strainchamps, Piero Gargiulo:  Bati, Luca. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
• Liliana Pannella:  Bati, Luca. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 7:  Bartolucci – Bellotto. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1965.