Giovanni Domenico da Nola

Giovanni Domenico da Nola (* 1510-1520 in Nola, † May 1592 in Naples) was an Italian composer and poet of the Renaissance.

Life and work

Nola was 1546-47 founding member of the Accademia dei Sereni and familiar with the lutenist Luigi Dentex and the Marchese della Terza, a conveyor of Orlando di Lasso. From February 1563 until his death he served as maestro di cappella at the SS Annunziata in Naples. In this role, he also taught the girls of the orphanage of the Annunziata and the deacons of the seminary singing.

Nola's first release, a three-part " Canzoni villa ash " in two volumes, published 1541st They found compliance with contemporaries such as Orlando di Lasso, Hubert Waelrant, Adrian Willaert, Baldassare Donato, Perissone Cambio and Antonio Scandello, and were processed partially in four parts of these. A first, four-part madrigal book from 1545 includes 29 compositions, 22 of them to texts by Petrarch. 1564 appeared a second, five-voice madrigal book, two more are considered to be lost. In a Benacci ( undated ) collection of poems by Giovanni Domenico da Nola was published.