Giovanni Battista Riccio

Giovanni Battista Riccio (also: Rizzo, * 1570, † 1621) was an Italian composer, organist and violinist of the early Baroque.

Giovanni Battista Riccio worked as a musician in Venice. At the Scuola di San Giovanni Evangelista in 1609 he received the post of organist, although the contract identifying him as a violinist. Riccio composed three books with instrumental and vocal music, which were published in Venice. In his works for winds, he leaned against the style of Giovanni Gabrieli.

Ricci's now best known collection is the " Terzo libro delle Divine Lodi " with 36 vocal works and instrumental pieces 12. The instrumental works are mostly based on the principle of the trio sonata, as instruments recorders, violins, tines, bassoon and basso continuo or dulcian are required. It is rare for the Venetian tradition of his time was the use of recorders, which he used in a Canzona for two flutes, entitled " La Canzone Grimantea con il tremolo ". The individual pieces are often dedicated to Venetian composers such as Giovanni Picchi, Alessandro Grandi, Giovanni Battista Grillo ( " La Grileta a 2 Violini in Ecco " for 2 Violins and BC ) and Giacomo Finetti. Ricci's late works using the style of the so-called Seconda pratica whose supporters and named Claudio Monteverdi was.

Works

• Primo libro delle Divine Lodi (Venice, 2nd Edition 1612 )
• Il secondo libro delle Divine Lodi (Venice, 1614 )
• Il Terzo libro delle Divine Lodi (Venice, 1620 and 1621)

Swell

• Article by Eleanor Selfridge - Field, in: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians