Luzzasco Luzzaschi

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Luzzasco Luzzaschi

Luzzasco Luzzaschi (c. 1545 – September 10, 1607) was an Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
, organist

Organist

An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ . An organist may play organ repertoire, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumentalist....
, and teacher of the late Renaissance

Renaissance music

Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1400 - 1600. Dates of classical music eras, given the lack of abrupt shifts in musical thinking during the 15th century....
. He was born and died in Ferrara

Ferrara

Ferrara is a city in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital city of the Province of Ferrara.It is situated 50 km north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located 5 km north....
, and probably spent his entire life there.

While he is best known as a madrigalist

Madrigal (music)

A madrigal is a type of secular vocal music composition, written during the Renaissance music and early Baroque music eras. Throughout most of its history it was Polyphony and unaccompanied by instruments, with the number of voices varying from two to eight, but most frequently three to six....
, he was also an accomplished organist and pedagogue (he was the mentor of Frescobaldi

Girolamo Frescobaldi

Girolamo Frescobaldi was an Italian musician, one of the most important composers of keyboard instrument music in the late Renaissance music and early Baroque music periods....
). As a child he studied with Cipriano de Rore

Cipriano de Rore

Cipriano de Rore was a Franco-Flemish school composer of the Renaissance music, active in Italy. Not only was he central representative of the generation of Franco-Flemish composers after Josquin des Prez who went to live and work in Italy, but he was one of the most prominent composers of madrigals in the middle of the 16th century....
, and as an adult served as the court organist to Duke Alfonso II, where he did the bulk of his composition.

Luzzaschi composed seven books of madrigals for five voices, including the famous Madrigali ...

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Luzzasco Luzzaschi (c. 1545 – September 10, 1607) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
, organist
Organist

An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ . An organist may play organ repertoire, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumentalist....
, and teacher of the late Renaissance
Renaissance music

Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1400 - 1600. Dates of classical music eras, given the lack of abrupt shifts in musical thinking during the 15th century....
. He was born and died in Ferrara
Ferrara

Ferrara is a city in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital city of the Province of Ferrara.It is situated 50 km north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located 5 km north....
, and probably spent his entire life there.

While he is best known as a madrigalist
Madrigal (music)

A madrigal is a type of secular vocal music composition, written during the Renaissance music and early Baroque music eras. Throughout most of its history it was Polyphony and unaccompanied by instruments, with the number of voices varying from two to eight, but most frequently three to six....
, he was also an accomplished organist and pedagogue (he was the mentor of Frescobaldi
Girolamo Frescobaldi

Girolamo Frescobaldi was an Italian musician, one of the most important composers of keyboard instrument music in the late Renaissance music and early Baroque music periods....
). As a child he studied with Cipriano de Rore
Cipriano de Rore

Cipriano de Rore was a Franco-Flemish school composer of the Renaissance music, active in Italy. Not only was he central representative of the generation of Franco-Flemish composers after Josquin des Prez who went to live and work in Italy, but he was one of the most prominent composers of madrigals in the middle of the 16th century....
, and as an adult served as the court organist to Duke Alfonso II, where he did the bulk of his composition.

Luzzaschi composed seven books of madrigals for five voices, including the famous Madrigali ... per cantare, et sonare, a uno, e doi, e tre soprani of 1601. Unlike many madrigalists of the time, he included a highly ornamented soprano
Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four part chorale style harmony the soprano takes the highest part which usually encompasses the melody....
line, anticipating some of the changes to come in the early Baroque
Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
era. Also unique in Luzzaschi's work is the existence of written-out keyboard accompaniments.

Luzzaschi was the director of the famous Concerto delle donne
Concerto delle donne

The concerto delle donne was a group of professional female singers in the late Italian Renaissance of Ferrara, Italy, renowned for their technical and artistic virtuosity....
and composed madrigals for them, including his Madrigali of 1601. His work with these virtuosic women probably inspired the florid vocal lines he wrote.

He was a skilled representative of the late Italian madrigal style, along with Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italy composer of the Renaissance music. He was the most famous sixteenth-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition....
, Wert
Giaches de Wert

Giaches de Wert was a Franco-Flemish School composer of the late Renaissance, active in Italy. Intimately connected with the progressive musical center of Ferrara, he was one of the leaders in developing the style of the late Renaissance madrigal ....
, Monte
Philippe de Monte

Philippe de Monte , sometimes known as Philippus de Monte, was a Flanders composer of the late Renaissance music. He was a member of the 3rd generation madrigalists and wrote more madrigal s than any other composer of the time....
, Lassus
Orlande de Lassus

Orlande de Lassus was a France-Flanders composer of late Renaissance music. Along with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina , he is today considered to be the chief representative of the mature polyphony style of the Franco-Flemish School, and he was the most famous and influential musician in Europe at the end of the 16th century....
, Marenzio
Luca Marenzio

Luca Marenzio was an Italy composer and singer of the late Renaissance music. He was one of the most renowned composers of madrigal , and wrote some of the most famous examples of the form in its late stage of development, prior to its early Baroque music transformation by Claudio Monteverdi....
, Gesualdo
Carlo Gesualdo

Carlo Gesualdo, known as Gesualdo da Venosa , Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian music composer, lutenist and nobleman of the late Renaissance music....
and others. In addition to his madrigals, he also composed sacred music (he published a collection of five-part motet
Motet

In Western music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choir musical compositions.The name comes either from the Latin movere, or a Latinized version of Old French mot, "word" or "verbal utterance." The Medieval Latin for "motet" is "motectum", and the Italian mottetto was also used....
s in 1598).

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