Giovanni gastoldi biography

Italian composer

Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (c. 1554 – 4 January 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. He is known for his 1591 publication of balletti for five voices.

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Career

Gastoldi was born at Caravaggio, Lombardy. In 1592 he succeeded Giaches de Wert as choirmaster at Santa Barbara's, Mantua, and served until 1605 under the Dukes Guglielmo and Vincenzo Gonzaga. According to Filippo Lomazzo, Gastoldi became choirmaster at the Duomo, Milan, afterwards, but other considerations seem to make this point doubtful.

Works

Gastoldi composed several books of madrigals, a variety of sacred vocal music, and a few instrumental works.

Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi – Wikipedia

Particularly noteworthy among his secular vocal works is his Quarto libro de' madrigali a cinque voci (1602), which consists almost entirely of settings of texts from Battista Guarini's hugely popular "pastoral tragicomedy" Il pastor fido (The Faithful Shepherd). Accordi Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi Songs, Albums, Revie...

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