Stefano Bernardi

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Stefano Bernardi (also Steffano, * 1577 in Verona ; † February 15, 1637 ibid) was an Italian composer and music theorist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods.

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Stefano Bernardi received his training as a choirboy at Verona Cathedral under the choir regent Ippolito Baccusi (around 1550–1609), who in 1605 included two works by his former pupil in his second madrigal book. While still in Verona, Bernardi received the minor orders and served in the cathedral chapel from 1603 and at the same time he was a member of the Accademia Filarmonica Verona. From 1607 he worked in Rome as Kapellmeister at the Church of Santa Maria ai Monti . In 1610 he published his first prints here. In 1611 he was succeeded Giovanni Francesco Anerio as the cathedral music director in Verona. His treatise Porta Musicale comes from this time . The Accademia Filarmonica appointed him Maestro di musica in 1616 , for which he thanked with his Concerti accademiche .

In 1622 he succeeded Antonio Cifra as court conductor of the Bishop of Wroclaw and Brixen, Archduke Karl , in his residence in Neisse, Silesia . After Karl's death in 1624, Prince-Bishop Paris von Lodron gave Bernardi the post of court conductor in Salzburg, which he held until 1634. In Salzburg, Bernardi was ordained a priest and was awarded a doctorate in both rights, which earned him a so-called doctoral grant from the snow gentlemen's monastery belonging to Salzburg Cathedral. Bernardi returned to Verona towards the end of his life.

Bernardi's works are in the polyphonic style of Palestrina as well as in the new concertato style. For the inauguration of the newly built Salzburg Cathedral , Bernardi composed a monumental twelve-course Te Deum (lost), which was performed on September 24, 1628.

Works (selection)

Numerous mass settings and individual works in anthologies . Most of the works were published by the Venetian publisher Vincenci.

Church music

  • Motecta two to five voices (Rome, 1610)
  • Psalmi integri four-part (Venice, 1613)
  • Motetti in cantilena for four voices (Venice, 1613)
  • Mass for four to five voices (Venice, 1615)
  • Missae octonis vocibus modulatae eight voices (Venice, 1616)
  • Concerti sacri scielti, et trasportati dal secondo, et terzo libro de madrigali five-part with organ (Venice, 1621)
  • Psalms in eight parts, with and without organ accompaniment (Venice, 1624)
  • Te Deum with twelve courses (Salzburg, 1624)
  • Encomia sacra two- to six-part (Salzburg, 1634)
  • Salmi concertati five-part (Venice, 1637)
  • Mass a otto voci eight-part (Venice, 1638)

Secular music

  • Il primo libro de madrigali (Rome, 1611)
  • Il primo libro de madrigali (Venice, 1611)
  • Il secondo libro de madrigali (Venice, 1616)
  • Concerti academici con varie sorti di sinfonie (Venice, 1616)
  • Il terzo libro de madrigali (Venice, 1619)
  • Madrigaletti for two to three voices, contains several sonatas for three instruments, 2 violins or tines and bass ( theorbo , trombone or bassoon ) (Venice, 1621)
  • Il terzo libro de madrigali for six parts in concertato style, with several instrumental sonatas (Venice, 1624)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Eitner: Biographical-bibliographical source lexicon of musicians and music scholars (1900)
personal data
SURNAME Bernardi, Stefano
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bernardi, Steffano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1577
PLACE OF BIRTH Verona
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1637
Place of death Verona