Girolamo Frescobaldi

See also: Frescobaldi

Girolamo Frescobaldi , born with Ferrare (Italy) the September 9th 1583 and died in Rome, on March 1st 1643, Harpsichord ist and organist.

Raise Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Frescobaldi was organist titular with life of the Basilique Saint-Pierre of Rome between 1608 and its death in 1643, with share a stay at the court of the Médicis to Florence of 1629 with 1634. In June 1607, it went to Brussels in the continuation of the apostolic nuncio and made print its 1st Book of Madrigaux with five votes with Antwerp in 1608. It would have perhaps met Sweelinck and Peter Philips during this voyage.

Principal Master of the Harpsichord and the organ in Italy during the first part of the 17th century, his fame exceeded the Italian peninsula and its influence extended, in particular via its disciple Johann Jakob Froberger, in the musical rest of Europe, until Jean-Sebastien Bach.

Its work is marked seal of its genius of melodist. The style of Frescobaldi, very personal, makes a broad place with the dissonances, the modulation, the sudden ruptures of rate/rhythm, the melody invention always renewed which evoke the improvisation.

Although it had many pupils (inter alia Froberger, Kerll, Tunder), it is the large last representing, at the same time as most gifted, of the Italian, declining school after him: after Bernardo Pasquini, the country turns to the Violon, the Concerto, the opera…

The Toccata, the Partita, the Canzone, the Ricercare, the Capriccio and the Fantasia are its musical forms of predilection.

Its work consists of several collections:

  • vocal works
    • 1608 Madrigaux
    • 1627 Motets
    • 1630 two books of airs
  • works for various instruments
    • 1628 Canzoni which announce the sonata with three
  • harpsichord or organ
    • 1608 Imaginations
    • 1615 Ricercari and Canzoni
    • 1615 Toccate and Partite
    • 1624 Capriccios
    • 1627 Toccate and Partite
    • 1635 Fiori Musicali of liturgical use
    • 1645 (posthumous) Canzoni
    • Of the additional editions took again preceding works:
      • 1624 : Ricercari, Canzoni, Capricci (1615 and 1624)
      • 1637: Toccate and Partite (1615 and 1627).

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