Tarquinio Merula (1595 - 1665): Ricercare cromatico per Organo скачать в хорошем качестве

Tarquinio Merula (1595 - 1665): Ricercare cromatico per Organo

www.Rousseau.SHP.media Tarquinio Merula (1595 - 1665) was one of the most progressive and interesting composers of the early 17th Century. He not only explored and developed new forms and styles, he was also capable of producing harmonies and progressions that were surprisingly modern for the period, as his Ricercare cromatico presented here readily demonstrates. Tarquinio Merula was born 24th November, 1595, in Busseto, in the Italian province of Parma. He most likely received his musical training in Cremona, Lombardy and it was there that he was first employed as an organist and spent much of his life, intermittently. In 1616, he moved to Lodi, Lombardy, and was organist at the Church of S Maria Incoronata until 1621 when he travelled to Warsaw, Poland, and worked as organist at the Court of King Sigismund III Vasa. In 1626, he returned to Cremona and the following year was appointed organist and choirmaster at the cathedral. Four years later he moved to the cathedral in Bergamo, Lombardy. Bergamo, along with Venice and other northern Italian cities, had been ravaged by the plague of 1630, killing Merula's predecessor, Alessandro Grandi, and many of the choir. Merula had almost to start from scratch rebuilding the city's musical resources. Scandal and allegations eventually forced him to return to Cremona but his relations with his employers became strained and in 1635 he want back to Bergamo, this time to a different church. In 1646, he went back again to Cremona, this time taking charge of the music at the Church of Laudi della Madonna, where he remained until his death on 10th December, 1665. Thanks to Merula publishing his works in 1639, 1640, and 1652, a large number survive although he is probably somewhat overlooked in comparison with the likes of Monteverdi and others of the Venetian School who largely defined the end of the Renaissance period of music and brought in the early Baroque.