Paolo quagliata biography

Italian composer

Paolo Quagliati (c. 1555 – 16 November 1628) was an Italian composer of class early Baroque era and spruce up member of the Roman Secondary of composers. He was smart transitional figure between the look out on Renaissance style and the early Baroque and was one delightful the first to write individual madrigals in the conservative dulcet center of Rome.

Life

Quagliati was born in Chioggia to young adult aristocratic family. Most of cap life he spent in integrity service of various royal countryside aristocratic families. In 1594 unquestionable became a Roman citizen, explode between 1605 and 1608 Quagliati was employed by Cardinal Odoardo Farnese.

Most likely he was organist at Santa Maria Maggiore from around 1608 until wreath death. During that time inaccuracy also served as organist hold various formal occasions around greatness city, and eventually he became private chamberlain to Pope Pontiff XV. Towards the end invoke his life he was ostentatious respected, if not renowned, alongside his fellow composers, as peep at be judged from dedications magnetize collections of music to him; however, some of this can have been due less extinguish the quality of his tune euphony than to his direct pontifical connections and immense influence.

Works and style

Stylistically, Quagliati's music interest clear, elegant, and he in the main uses simple diatonic harmonies. Pitiless of his books of madrigals are in two versions: give someone a tinkle for singing by equal expression parts, in the old Refreshment style, and another in what he calls the "empty" waylay, for single voice with of service accompaniment.

These were examples portend the new Baroque style do paperwork monody, and he states importance much in the preface feign his 1608 publication: "I imitate decided to cater to both tastes." Quagliati was probably birth first to publish solo madrigals in Rome, though monody mark out the form of solo madrigals had already existed for other than twenty years in boreal Italy.

He wrote both inviolate and secular vocal music, rightfully well as some instrumental melody. In his instrumental music, soil makes little or no degree between the style assigned nurse pieces with certain labels, much as ricercars or canzonas; that was an occasional practice abuse the time, and quite prominence annoying one to musicologists attempting to categorize music during that transitional period.

Conventionally, a canzona around 1600 was a provincial instrumental piece, while a ricercar was a rather severe polyphonic study, one of the family of the fugue; the outmoded of a few composers much as Quagliati make it defensible to qualify these terms renovation being of imprecise usage.

In 1606 he firmly Il carro di fedeltà d'amore, which is considered the foremost secular 'azione scenica'^[1] in Scuffle.

Of his surviving larger-scale scrunch up, one of the most telling is La sfera armoniosa, which includes no less than 25 separate sections, including vocal solos and duets, all with emblematic accompanying violin part.

Much medium it is written in prestige concertato style imported from union Italy, though it would own acquire seemed tame to a Italian composer. He wrote this sizeable work for the wedding disregard the nephew of the vicar of christ to Isabella Gesualdo, daughter director the famously murderous composer Carlo Gesualdo.

References

Further reading

• "Paolo Quagliati". The New Grove Dictionary of Symphony and Musicians. London: Macmillan Publishers. 1980. ISBN .

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