Marenzio was born at Coccaglio, near Brescia, and died in Rome.
While Marenzio wrote some sacred music in the form of motets, and madrigali spirituali (madrigals based on religious texts), the vast majority of his work, and his enduring legacy, is his enormous output of madrigals.
Marenzio was hugely influential on composers in Italy, as well as in the rest of Europe.
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LucaMarenzio is one of those composers whose work we might be familiar with; we might even have performed some of his madrigals or sacred music.
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Marenzio was the greatest of those Italian composers whose fame rests entirely on their madrigals; his output includes no fewer than 500 such pieces and 80 villanellas, not to mention a small quantity of sacred music.
Later Marenzio came to favor more serious, even morbid, texts and to write in a style that was at once austere and intense, making full use of dissonant and chromatic harmonies and yet hardly departing from a chaste, even flow.
Marenzio'smadrigals made an immediate impact in England, and enormously influenced the English madrigalists; some were issued in Yonge's Musica Transalpina of 1588.
LucaMarenzio was born in Coccaglio and may have been a chorister in the nearby Cathedral of Brescia under G. Contini.
During his 7 years with the cardinal, Marenzio published his first four books of madrigals for five voices, the first three volumes of madrigals for six voices, the madrigali spirituali, and the first three books of villanelle, in addition to a number of pieces for anthologies and the first of his five volumes of motets.
Marenzio was now at the height of his fame, and when he left the Medicean court he found no dearth of patrons.
LucaMarenzio was originally a choir boy in Brescia Cathedral.
Marenzio was a prolific composer of vocal music and he also wrote a considerable amount of sacred music.
His collections of madrigals were of historical importance in the development of the Italian madrigal and were immediately circulated throughout Europe and imitated in England towards the end of the 16th century.
According to The New Penguin Dictionary of Music, LucaMarenzio was an Italian composer; wrote more than 200 madrigals, very successful and having much influence in England.
Marenzio, Luca (1553 or 1554 - 1599), biography and works by naxos.com.
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Marenzio spent much of his later career in the service of influential ecclesiastical patrons in Rome, in particular Cardinal Luigi d'Este, a member of the ruling family of Ferrara, important patrons of the arts.
He was a prolific composer of vocal music and is best known today for his madrigals, although he wrote a considerable quantity of sacred music.
Marenzio published a number of collections of madrigals for four, five or six voices and is of historical importance in the development of the Italian madrigal, imitated towards the end of the 16th century in England.
It is not known when Marenzio left the court of the Polish king; spring of 1597 or 1598 is regarded as the probable date.
This can be used as evidence both of the creative reception of Marenzio's Mass in seventeenth-century Poland, and as an argument for claiming that the echo device used by the royal maestro di cappella was not only noticed, but emphasised and imitated by his contemporaries.
A comparison of Sanctus and Agnus Dei of Marenzio's Mass with the anonymous version from the Pelplin tablature shows clearly that in the case of the latter we are dealing with partially reworked (selected fragments being developed) material of the first composition.
Extraordinary concert organized by the Centro di Studi Musicali "LucaMarenzio" of Brescia Salone Ferramola of the Suore Ancelle via Moretto, 16 Brescia - h.
International Meeting of studies dedicated to the theme: "LucaMarenzio in the Italian and European Renaissance".
The Third International Competition reserved for madrigalistic groups is announced in order to celebrate and spread the works of the musician from Coccaglio "LucaMarenzio".
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Regarded by his contemporaries as the leading madrigal composer of his time, LucaMarenzio was an important figure in sixteenth-century Italian music, and also highly esteemed in England, Flanders and Poland.
Women play a decisive role as dedicatees of marenzio's magrigals and in influencing the way in which they were perfomed.
He is the author of a two-volume study of Marenzio'smadrigals and has written several essays on various aspects of the Italian madrigal.
Represented are many of the major composers of the period including G. Gabrieli, Marenzio, Croce, Striggio, and Palestrina.
This volume contains the madrigals of Marenzio’s Fifth Book of Madrigals for Five Voices, and the Madrigali Spirituali, the latter based on religious texts probably for use during the Lenten season.
This volume contains the madrigals of Marenzio’s First Book of Madrigals for Four Voices (there is no evidence of a Second Book) which contained 21 madrigals, and an additional 9 madrigals, 4 of which are from his 1588 collection of madrigals for 4, 5, and 6 voices.
Of all the composers who developed the madrigal form away from its earlier contrapuntal roots toward the Baroque style of Monteverdi and contemporaries, LucaMarenzio (1533-99) is slowly emerging as the most accomplished from our modern perspective.
Although Marenzio represents a somewhat short-lived intermediate form in the Mannerist progression from the mature style of Cipriano de Rore (c.1515-1565) to the early style of Monteverdi, he did achieve a personal style which stands well on its own.
Marenzio's first book (on this program) shows the more old-fashioned 4-voice disposition, while his later books move on to the emerging standard of the 5-voice madrigal.
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In the autumn of 1999 there will be an Early Music issue devoted to Italian Music in the Late Renaissance to commemorate the composer's death exactly 400 years ago.
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LucaMarenzio: Madrigali a quattro voci, Libro Primo 1585
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See also Marenzio's Estote fortes [CNP Catalog #7040]
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