Marc'Antonio Ingegneri

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Marc'Antonio Ingegneri (spellings also Ingegnieri, Ingignieri, Ingignero, Inzegneri ; * 1535 or 1536 in Verona , † July 1, 1592 in Cremona ) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance . Although he worked in northern Italy for most of his life, he is often considered a member of the Roman school of polyphonic church music because of his stylistic similarity to Palestrina . He is also famous as Claudio Monteverdi's teacher .

The cathedral of Cremona, place of work of Marc'Antonio Ingegneri

Not much is known about his early life, but he seems to have had a family from Venice, and he probably studied with Cyprian de Rore in Parma and with Vincenzo Ruffo in Verona . Sometime around 1570 he moved to Cremona and there earned a good reputation as a composer and instrumentalist. He may have been an organist and has been recorded as a string player . In 1581 he became maestro di cappella of the local cathedral , and apparently remained in that position for the rest of his life. During this tenure, Claudio Monteverdi became his pupil, who was important for the transition into the Baroque period .

Ingegneri was close friends with Bishop Niccolò Sfondrati, later Pope Gregory XIV , who is closely linked to the reforms of the Counter-Reformation and the Council of Trent , and this influence is present in his music, which usually includes the simplification and clarity of Palestrina Style shows. Indeed, his book of the 27 Responsoria has long been wrongly attributed to Palestrina. But some of his music completely ignores the reformist dicta of the council, most obviously his four-part motet Noe noe , an inverted double canon that requires a very capable ear to hear the text - and text comprehensibility was one of the main demands of the Council of Trent to every composer of sacred polyphony.

His masses are simple, short and relatively homophonic , and often surpass Palestrina in terms of clarity and simplicity. His madrigals tend to be more conservative and blatantly ignore the innovations of composers like Luzzaschi and Marenzio , who were experimenting with lively chromatics and word painting around the same time .

He wrote two books of masses, 1573 and 1587, at least three books of motets (some may have been lost), and eight books of four- to six-part madrigals.

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SURNAME Ingegneri, Marc'Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ingegnieri, Marc'Antonio; Ingignieri, Marc'Antonio; Ingignero, Marc'Antonio; Inzegneri, Marc'Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1535 or 1536
PLACE OF BIRTH Verona
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1592
Place of death Cremona