Luzzasco Luzzaschi News
Italian composer and organist
Commemorations 2025 (Birth: Luzzasco Luzzaschi)
- pipe organ
- Italy
- organist, composer, harpsichordist, pedagogue
Last update
2024-04-25
Refresh
2021-11-01 14:29:34
Tarquinia Molza, 2021
[…] a servant class. Such a misalliance was unacceptable, and in 1589, when discovered, Molza was banned from Ferrara. She eventually moved to Rome; in 1600 the Roman Senate bestowed on her an honorary citizenship. Monza died in Modena on August 8th of 1617. Many of the best composers of the Renaissance spent some time (and sometimes a long time) in Ferrara, from Guillaume Dufay to Jacob Obrecht, Josquin des Prez and on. During Molza’s time, Luzzasco Luzzaschi was the Duke’s favorite composer but he wasn’t the only one. Giovan Leonardo Primavera composed madrigals based on Molza’s poetry. Here’s one of his madrigals, Nasce La Gioja Mia, performed by The Tallis Scholars.
2021-05-22 17:58:51
New and recent releases of interest. Melancholy Grace: music of Frescobaldi, Luzzaschi, Strozzi, Bull, and others; Jean Rondeau (Erato) Richard Barrett, strange lines and distances (via Bandcamp) Chris Cerrone, The Arching Path and other works; Timo Andres, Lindsay Kesselman, Ian...
2020-03-02 14:43:25
Gesualdo and more, 2020
This Week in Classical Music: March 2, 2020. Composers and conductors. Seven talented composers were born this week. The oldest (and one of our favorites) is Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza; he was born in Venosa on March 8th, 1566. Many of us know the extraordinary story of Gesualdo killing his wife and her lover whom he found in flagrante in his home, Palazzo di Sangro in Naples. His music is not as well known, which is a unfortunate, as Gesualdo had an enormous talent. He spent two years in Ferrara, then a major musical center, meeting with and listening to the music of the best Italian composers of the time (while there, he also married the Duke’s niece, Leonora d'Este). And while in Ferrara, he published the first four books of madrigals (eventually he’d publish two more). Luzzasco Luzzaschi was one of the Ferrarese composers who […]
2019-08-05 13:46:07
Concerto delle donne II
[…] a sonnet in which he praised her singing. Duke Alfonso had wanted to have an ensemble of female singers since he heard Tarquinia Molza, the famous singer and composer, in Modena in 1568. He already had two fine amateur singers,noblewomen Lucrezia Bendidio (the lover of the poet Torquato Tasso and then, later, of Cardinal Luigi d'Este) and her sister Isabella; with the addition of Laura Peverara and Anna Guarini, who was trained by Luzzasco Luzzaschi, the duke had a talented vocal group. Alfonso also hired Giulio Cesare Brancaccio, a soldier, adventurer and a fine bass. More singers joined the Concerto later. Luzzaschi usually accompanied the singers on the clavicembalo, a light, 16th century Italian version of the harpsichord. Laura played the harp while Brancaccio – the lute. As we mentioned last week, Concerto delle donne was disbanded in 1597, after the death of Duke Alfonso II. Laura Peverara didn’t […]
or
- timeline: Composers (Europe). Performers (Europe).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): L...