Martino Pesenti

Martino Pesenti (* around 1600; † before March 15, 1648 in Venice ) was an Italian composer , organist and harpsichordist.

Life

Martino Pesenti was born blind and suffered from paralysis. He was a student of Giovanni Battista Grillo (older sources give Claudio Monteverdi ). He worked exclusively in Venice, as a music teacher, tuner and performing musician at music evenings and balls for the Venetian upper middle class. He became friends with the publisher Alessandro Vincenti , who published all of Pesenti's works and described him in a dedication in 1630 as miracolo del nostro secolo .

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Pesenti composed works of the concert style, including just one volume of sacred music. There are 7 known books with madrigals , a book with arias a voce sola , a book with one to three-part masses and motets as well as four books with dance movements for a keyboard instrument and partly for a keyboard instrument with other instruments. Some of the dance movements from Op. 15 are not only available in a diatonic version but also in a chromatic or enharmonic version. They are of particular interest because they are intended for a keyboard instrument with separate keys for enharmonic tones (such as a sharp and b flat ). Despite the development of its own musical language, Monteverdi's tonal language can still be heard clearly in the madrigal book of 1638.

literature

Romolo Giraldi: Pesenti, Martino. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1938.
John Whenham: Pesenti, Martino. In: MGG Online (subscription required).

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Eleanore Selfridge-Field: Venetian instrumental music from Gabrieli to Vivaldi p. 144, Dover Publications, 1994

personal data
SURNAME	Pesenti, Martino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian composer
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1600
DATE OF DEATH	before March 15, 1648
Place of death	Venice

[1] Eleanore Selfridge-Field: Venetian instrumental music from Gabrieli to Vivaldi p. 144, Dover Publications, 1994