Giovanni Bassano

Giovanni Bassano (* 1558, † 1617) was an Italian musician and composer of the Venetian school on the border of the Renaissance to Baroque music. His work occupies a key position in the development of instrumental music at the Venetian St. Mark's Basilica. He left a script with detailed information at that decoration technique, which was an extensive resource for future performance practice of early music. It is not known whether he was related to the Bassano family of musicians.

Life

About Bassano's early years of life, there are no sources. He first came in 1576 as an instrumental musician at San Marco in Venice in appearance. He quickly earned a reputation as one of the best instrumentalists in Venice. 1585 he published his first book Ricercate, passagi et cadentie the instrumental parts are to be provided with ornaments with a detailed and accurate description as in the transcription of vocal music. In the same year he became a music teacher at the seminary St. Mark's Basilica connected. In 1601 he was the head of the educational institution as successor to the late Girolamo Dalla Casa. He remained in this position held until death. The exact date of his death is not known, but can be dated to the summer of 1617, since both were elected at the same time.

Work

Bassano practiced both as instrumental musicians as well as music director of a major influence on the music of Gabrieli. Probably the most ornate zinc lots Giovanni Gabrieli were meant for him as a soloist. In addition to the cathedral music Bassano led several ensembles in the venetian Pifferari, the chapels of bagpipes, flutes, shawm, Flageoletten, dulcians and other wind instruments, who played in other churches of Venice and on festive occasions.

He also worked as a composer, although his work as a composer by his fame as an instrumentalist and theoretician of performance practice faded into the background. He composed motets and concerti ecclesiastici in the style of the Venetian polychorality, besides madrigals, secular Canzonettas and instrumental works. The Canzonettas became famous outside of Italy. Thomas Morley met her and she gave in London in 1597 in an English translation in print.

Some of Bassano's instrumental works are of high contrapuntal craftsmanship that does not show up in the more ceremonial, homophonic compositions. The voicing his fantasies and ricercare is durchimitiert dense and displays complex motivic work. The stylistic similarity of his motets with the early work of Heinrich Schütz, who had also been a pupil Gabrieli, suggests the possibility that the two have known each other.

• Composer ( Renaissance )
• Italian composer
• Born in the 16th century
• Died in 1617
• Man