Massimiliano Neri

Massimiliano Neri (also: Negri) (* probably 1623 in Bonn  ? † 1673 at the latest ) was an Italian organist and composer of the Baroque era.

Life

Massimiliano Neri came from a family of musicians who had their roots in Verona . As can be seen from his will, he was probably the illegitimate son of the Bonn court conductor Giacomo Negri (1592 – after 1646). Massimiliano Neri received a musical and humanistic education, at the expense of the educated and wealthy Venetian patrician Giacomo Soranzo. From 1644 to 1664 he was deputy organist at San Marco and Kapellmeister at the Ospedaletto in Venice. From 1664 he had a job as organist and Kapellmeister with the Elector of Cologne in his residence in Bonn.

There are three known collections of works. Among them the Emperor Ferdinand III. Dedicated polyphonic sonatas, canzons .... Op. 2. Both collections of instruments are of excellent quality and contain interesting examples of the trio sonata . The sonatas Op. 2/10 and Op. 2/14, however, are the first surviving examples of the genre of Concerto Grosso . Individual parts of Neri's works are available in Berlin and Wroclaw collections.

Works

• Op. 1 Sonata e Canzone a quatro da sonarsi con diversi stromenti in Chiesa, et in Camera opra prima (Venice 1644)
• Op. 2 Sonata da suonersi con varii strumenti (Venice 1651)
• Op. 3 Motetti a due e tre voci. Libro primo opera terza (Venice 1664)

literature

• Willi Apel , Italian Violin Music in the 17th Century , 1983 ISBN 3-515-03786-1
• Francesco Caffi, Storia della musica sacra nella già Cappella Ducale di San Marco in Venezia dal 1318 al 1797 , Georg Olms Verlag, 1982
• Paolo Alberto Rismondo, "Massimiliano * Neri * (approx. 1918-dopo il 1670) e la famiglia * Negri * tra Italia e Germania", Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra 26 (2005 / II), pagg. 57-109

Web links

• Massimiliano Neri in the Bavarian Musicians Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Sheet music and audio files by Massimiliano Neri in the International Music Score Library Project