Silvestro Ganassi

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Fontegara cover picture
Cover picture of the Regola Rubertina

Silvestro Ganassi dal Fontego (born January 1, 1492 in Fontego near Venice ; † 1565; also Sylvestro (di) Ganassi dal Fontego ) was an Italian viola da gamba and recorder player .

Life

Silvestro Ganassi worked as court musician to the Doge and until 1535 as an instrumentalist at St. Mark's Basilica . He was the author of two important textbooks for playing the recorder and the viola da gamba.

Works

La Fontegara

In 1535 he self-published the textbook Opera Intitulata Fontegara , which deals with the playing and diminution practice of the recorder.

"Like no other work of the time, it gives an insight into an astonishingly high culture of recorder playing and suggests that Ganassi was a first-class player who mastered his instrument with virtuosity and was familiar with it down to the last detail."

- Robert Donington , Hildemarie Peter : MGG

Ganassi recommends different syllables for articulation, including "Tere", "Lere" or "Chara", which can be varied and grouped into syllable combinations. He mentions, among other things, “Dacha deche dichi Docho duchu” or “Chara chare chari charo charu”. Furthermore, he knows the approach without tongue thrust, which he calls "head approach". According to his own statements, he expanded the usual range of the recorder of that time by finding new fingerings by seven more tones. He often uses half-covers and points out that the player should adapt to the different construction of the flute by means of differentiated handles. The diminutions are based on simple melody models, for which he gives examples from simple variations to rhythmically very complex coloraturas.

Regola Rubertina

The Regola Rubertina appeared in two parts in 1542 and 1543 (Lettione Seconda), also self-published. It is considered to be one of the earliest treatises on the viola da gamba and the first systematic viol school. Contents of the Regola Rubertina include a. Tuning the strings, setting up the frets, fingering and bowing. For the practice of diminishing he refers to the Fontegara . In Chapter 10 he describes the bass as the "most important" and "most worthy" voice, for which he gives aural, arithmetic and theological arguments.

Revisions

  • Sylvestro Ganassi: School of artistic flute playing and textbook of diminishing . Published by Hildemarie Peters. Robert Lienau publishing house, Berlin 1956
  • Sylvestro Ganassi: Regola Rubertina . Published by Hildemarie Peters. Robert Lienau publishing house, Berlin 1971

See also

literature

  • Hermann Keller: phrasing and articulation . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1955
  • Hans-Peter Schmitz: Principles of the performance practice of early music . Berlin 1950
  • Gotthold Frotscher: Performance practice of early music . Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 1963
  • Günter Hausswald: Musical styles . Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 1973
  • Michael Form (recorder player): Interview in Windkanal 2/2002 , Fulda
  • Thilo Hirsch: The “cantar alla viola” in the 16th century . Diploma thesis 1999 at the Schola Cantorum Basel

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Donington, Mirko Arnone:  Ganassi dal Fontego, Sylvestro. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 7 (Franco - Gretry). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7618-1117-9  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  2. ↑ Hildemarie Peter, foreword to the German edition from 1971
  3. ↑ Thilo Hirsch: The "cantar alla viola" in the 16th century . arcimboldo.ch, accessed January 9, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Ganassi, Silvestro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ganassi dal Fontego, Silvestro (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian viol and recorder player
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1492
PLACE OF BIRTH Fontego near Venice
DATE OF DEATH after 1542