Natale Monferrato
Italian Baroque composer
Natale Monferrato (1603–1685) was an Italian baroque composer. He was a pupil of Giovanni Rovetta, then was a singer at St Mark's Basilica in Venice, and then with the aid of Francesco Cavalli vicemaestro, or maestro di coro (1647–76). On 30 April 1676 he became director, after a competition with Giovanni Legrenzi, another of Rovetta's pupils, and Pietro Andrea Ziani.[1][2] He was earlier maestro at the Mendicanti.[3]
Following his death the junior post of maestro di coro fell to Giandomenico Partenio (1685–89), then Antonino Biffi (1699–1730).
Works, editions and recordings
- Edition: Alma redemptoris mater 1962 - 10 pages
- Edition: Natale Monferrato, Complete Masses, edited by Jonathan R. J. Drennan, Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, vol. 186 (Middleton, Wis.: A-R Editions, 2014)
- Recording: Alma redemptoris mater; Psalm. Carolyn Watkinson, Gonzaga Band, Chandos Classics, 2011.
References
- ^ Maria Teresa Muraro Studi sul teatro veneto fra Rinascimento ed età barocca 1971 - Natale Monferrato (1603-1685) scolaro di Rovetta, visse a Venezia nell'ambito della Cappella di S. Marco: fu aiuto di F. Cavalli quindi vicemaestro della Cappella (1647), infine (1676) direttore, in concorrenza con Legrenzi e Ziani.
- ^ Royal Musical Association research chronicle: Volume 37 Royal Musical Association - 2004 "The only other contender was Carlo Grossi (at the time holding a post at the Ospedaletto) whom Sartorio defeated by three votes. The maestro di cappella at that time was Natale Monferrato (1603-1685), who had been elected to the post ..."
- ^ Venetian instrumental music from Gabrieli to Vivaldi Eleanor Selfridge Field - 1994 Natale Monferrato (1603-85), Legrenzi and Giandomenico Partenio (? — 1701) — all to be maestri di cappella at San Marco — were maestri at the Mendicanti ...
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Maestri di cappella at Saint Mark's Basilica
- Johannes de Quadris (1463)
- Pietro de Fossis (1491)
- Adrian Willaert (1527)
- Cipriano de Rore (1563)
- Gioseffo Zarlino (1565)
- Baldassare Donato (1590)
- Giovanni Croce (1605)
- Giulio Cesare Martinengo (1609)
- Claudio Monteverdi (1613)
- Giovanni Rovetta (1644)
- Francesco Cavalli (1668)
- Natale Monferrato (1676)
- Giovanni Legrenzi (1685)
- Giovanni Battista Volpe (1690)
- Gian Domenico Partenio (1692)
- Antonio Biffi (1702)
- Antonio Lotti (1736)
- Antonio Pollarolo (1740)
- Giacomo Giuseppe Saratelli (1747)
- Baldassarre Galuppi (1762)
- Ferdinando Bertoni (1785)
- Bonaventura Furlanetto (1808)
- Giovanni Agostino Perotti (1811)
- Antonio Buzzolla (1855)
- Nicolò Coccon (1871)
- Lorenzo Perosi (1894)
- Pietro Magri (1898)
- Giulio Bas (1899)
- Delfino Thermignon (1900)
- Umberto Ravetta (1921)
- Matteo Tosi (1926)
- Gastone De Zuccoli (1937)
- Luigi Vio (1939)
- Alfredo Bravi (1954)
- Roberto Micconi (1981)
- Marco Gemmani (2000)