Antonio Gardano
Antonio Gardano (also Antoine Gardane) (1509 – 28 October 1569) was a French-born Italian composer and important music publisher and printer based in Venice.[1]
Life and career
Gardano arrived in the city as a "musico francese" whose musical compositions had been published in
madrigals.[2]
The composers best-represented in Gardano's output included
Orlande de Lassus, and Adrian Willaert, accounting for about 25 percent of his total publications. Gardano and Girolamo Scotto, owner of the other large Venetian publishing house in the middle of the 16th century, held an effective monopoly on publishing in Italy for several decades. While the house of Scotto published volumes on law, medicine, philosophy, and theology in addition to music, Gardano published only music.[3]
After his death, his sons Alessandro and Angelo carried on with the activity of the Gardano publishing house, producing more than 1000 more editions of music.
Works
Intabolatura Nova di Balli, a representative collection of 25 pieces published in 1551, includes the preface "dances of various kinds, to be played on the
pavanes and passamezzi. The original print is held by the Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale in Bologna.[4]
References
- ^ "Antonio Gardane [Gardano]". hoasm.org. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
- ^ Cum notis variorum: the newsletter of the Music Library, Issues 120-136. University of California, Berkeley, Music Library. 1988.
- ^ Jane Bernstein, "Scotto: 3, Girolamo Scotto". Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/25261 (accessed 4 January 2012).
- ^ "Recital program" (PDF). Retrieved 18 February 2011.[permanent dead link]
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