Marc'Antonio Ingegneri

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Marc'Antonio Ingegneri (also spelled Ingegnieri, Ingignieri, Ingignero, Inzegneri) (c. 1535 or 1536 – 1 July 1592) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance. He was born in Verona and died in Cremona. Even though he spent most of his life working in northern Italy, because of his stylistic similarity to Palestrina he is often considered to be a member of the Roman School of polyphonic church music. He is also famous as the teacher of Claudio Monteverdi.

Not much is known about his early life, but he probably had family from Venice, and he likely studied with

Parma, and Vincenzo Ruffo at Verona. Sometime around 1570 he moved to Cremona, and established a reputation there as a composer and instrumentalist. He may have been an organist, and is known to have been a string player. In 1581 he became maestro di cappella of the cathedral there, and he apparently remained in this position for the rest of his life. While at this position he is known to have taught Claudio Monteverdi
, who became important to the transition into the Baroque period.

Ingegneri was close friends with

inversion, in which it would require an exceedingly keen ear to hear the text: and intelligibility of the text was the one demand made by the Council of Trent of any composer of sacred polyphony
.

His

word-painting
around the same time.

He wrote two books of masses, in 1573 and 1587; at least three books of motets (others may have been lost); and eight books of madrigals, for four to six voices.

List of works

Sacred works

  • Liber primus missarum (1573),
  • Sacrarum cantionum for 5 voices (1576)
  • Sacrarum cantionum for 4 voices (1586),
  • Liber secundus missarum for 5 voices (1587)
  • Responsoria hebdomadae sanctae, Benedictus and improperia ... and Miserere for 4 and 6 voices (1588)
  • Lamentationes Hieremiae for 4 voices (1588),
  • Liber sacrarum cantionum for 16 voices and instruments (1596, Sacrae cantiones ... liber primus for 6 voices (1591),
  • Liber secundus hymnorum for 4 voices (1606)

also a few other works published in collections.

Secular works

Il primo libro dei madrigali for 5 and 8 voices (lost), Il secondo libro dei madrigali for 5 voices (1572), also 9 other books of madrigals plus 10 others in various collections.

Recordings

CDs of his music are published by Toccata Music. Recordings have also been released by the choir of Girton College, Cambridge.

Sources

  • "Marc Antonio Ingegneri", in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980.
    ISBN 1-56159-174-2
  • ISBN 0-393-09530-4
  • ISBN 0-460-03155-4
  • https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/news/girton-college-chapel-choir-release-new-album-2022

External links

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