Giaches de Wert

Giaches de value (* 1535 in Weert - Bornem in Mechelen; † May 6, 1596 in Mantua ) was a Franco- Flemish composer of the Renaissance.

Life

Giaches de value ( first name also jachet or Jaches ) was in the room Mechelen - Antwerp and was born a short time a chorister in the court chapel of St. Mary Carona, Marchese de Paduelle, in Avellino, near Naples. In 1550, he was trained by his compatriot Cyprian de Rore at the court of Ferrara. In 1553 he settled in Novel Lara at Mantua, where he was the " maestro di cappella " the Duke Gonzaga. From 1561 he was a member of the court orchestra in Parma, which was at that time under the guidance of his teacher Cyprian de Rore. 1565 did not settle permanently in Mantua down first. Conductor at S.Barbara, then as a composer and conductor of the Duke Guglielmo Gonzaga In the accompanying entourage of the Duke, he traveled to Ferrara, Venice and 1566 to a meeting of princes in Augsburg. There he impressed the emperor Maximilian II with a music theory lecture on "wrong" Quinten and his improvisational art of " contrapunto alla instruments sopra un canto Fermo ". In the years after 1570 Giaches de value was often at the Este court in Ferrara, where he especially appreciated the cultural and musical life.

Works

Giaches de Wert wrote motets and other church music. He won mainly importance with his madrigals which he designed in his mature years, after texts by Torquato Tasso and Giovanni Battista Guarini.

Secular Music

  • Il primo libro de madrigalia a cinque voci (Venice, 1558 )
  • Il primo libro de madrigali (Venice, 1561)
  • Madrigals del fiore, primo libro a cinque voci (Venice, 1561)
  • Madrigals del fiore, secondo libro a cinque voci (Venice, 1561)
  • Il Terzo libro a cinque voci de madrigali (Venice, 1563) ( the preface, shows him as a maestro, the Capella de Consalvo di Cordova Fernandes, Duke of Sessa and governor of Milan )
  • Il secondo libro de dedicated madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, 1564), Octaviano Farnese
  • Il quarto libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, 1567)
  • Il quinto libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, 1571)
  • Il sesto libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, 1577)
  • Il libro de settimo madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, 1581)
  • L' ottavo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, 1586)
  • Il nono libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, 1588)
  • Il primo libro delle villanelle a cinque voci canzonette (Venice, 1589 )
  • Il libro de decimo madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, 1591 )
  • L' undécimo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, 1595 )
  • Il libro de duodecimo madrigali ( posth Venice, 1608 for four to seven votes)

Church Music

Most ecclesiastical works are preserved in manuscript.

  • Motectorum liber primus (Venice, 1566; 5 votes)
  • Il secondo libro de Motetti (Venice, 1581; 5 votes)
  • Modulationum liber primus (Venice, 1581; 6 votes)
  • 8 Measure on a cantus firmus
  • Missa " Transeunte Domino "
  • Motet " Saule, Saule " for 8 voices
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