Hoste da Reggio
Hoste da Reggio (also L'Hoste, L'Osto, Oste, and Bartolomeo Torresano
Life
He was from
In 1555 he acquired a prebend at S. Calimero, also in Milan, and three years later he attained the prestigious position of maestro di cappella (choir director, the highest musical post) at Milan Cathedral. In 1563 he resumed his previous duties at S. Calimero, staying there until 1567, when he left Milan for Bergamo, where he served as maestro di cappella at Santa Maria Maggiore. He died there after only two years.[1]
Unusually for Renaissance composers, a painting survives of him. It is anonymous, and in a private collection in Brescia: it shows him, dressed as a priest, holding open one of his books of madrigals.[1]
After his death his name was sometimes named on reprints of his works as Spirito L'Hoste, though this name was not used in his life.[2] This may be due to confusion with another composer, Gasparo Pratoneri, "Spirito da Reggio."[3][4][5][6]
Music and influence
Hoste da Reggio's style showed many of the characteristics of the mid-century madrigal, which was at that time evolving along several different paths. He published his madrigals in five volumes in Venice between 1547 and 1554.
Some of the methods of madrigal composition common around 1550 which can be found in Hoste's music include
Occasionally he used a repeating melody in the soprano line, with the lower parts accompanying it differently each time it recurs. This most likely shows the influence of
Hoste also published a book of magnificats and motets; this one collection of sacred music (1550) appeared in Milan instead of Venice.
Notes
- ^ a b c d e Daolmi, Haar, Grove online
- ^ Early Music History: Volume 17: Studies in Medieval and Early ...: Volume 16 - Page 141 Iain Fenlon - 1999 "95 Spirito L'Hoste, Magnificat cum omnibus tonis hymnis et motetta (Milan, 1550). The name Spirito is not used in any of nearly a dozen Milanese documents dating from 1554 to 1571 that mention Hoste da Reggio."
- ^ Miscellanea di studi: Volume 5 Associazione piemontese per la ricerca delle fonti musicali - 2003 "Philibert Lanterme III-V-1566 "L'hoste de Regio" [Bouquet 1989] cioè Hoste da Reggio (Emilia) [Bartolomeo Torresano, da non confondere con Spirito da Reggio] 22X-23JQ.1567 "Ludovico Augustini" [Bouquet 1989], cioè Lodovico Agostini ..."
- ^ Nuova rivista musicale italiana: Volume 20, Issues 1-2 1986 "... fu probabilmente allievo — piuttosto che dell'Essenga come è stato recentemente asserito2 — di Gasparo Pratoneri, detto Spirito da Reggio, canonico e musicista attivo nella chiesa di S. Prospero di Reggio dal 1566, negli stessi anni ..."
- ^ La canzonetta dal 1570 al 1615 Concetta Assenza - 1997 "Emerge al proposito la figura di Gasparo Pratoneri (detto Spirito da Reggio), un canonico che fu attivo dal 1566 presso la chiesa di S. Prospero. Per quanto riguarda il settore della musica profana lo stesso Prato- neri si fa ricordare ..."
- ^ Enciclopedia della musica: Volume 5 PRATONERI Gasparo, detto Spirito da Reggio, compositore italiano (Reggio Emilia xvi sec. - ?). Sacerdote, nel 1569 era maestro di cappella di San Prospero a Reggio. Tenne nella propria casa un « ridotto » o accademia di virtuosi."
- ^ Einstein, Vol. 1 p. 285-6
References
- James Haar, Anthony Newcomb, Massimo Ossi, Glenn Watkins, Nigel Fortune, Joseph Kerman, Jerome Roche: "Madrigal", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed January 31, 2008), (subscription access)
- Davide Daolmi, James Haar, "Hoste da Reggio," Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed January 31, 2008), (subscription access)
- ISBN 0-393-09530-4
- Allan W. Atlas, Renaissance Music: Music in Western Europe, 1400–1600. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1998. ISBN 0-393-97169-4
- Alfred Einstein, The Italian Madrigal. Three volumes. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1949. ISBN 0-691-09112-9
External links
- Free scores by Hoste da Reggio in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)