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[[Image:Marenzio.jpg|thumb|Luca Marenzio]]
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==Life==
==Life==
'''Born:''' 1556
'''Born:''' October 18(?) 1553, or 1554


'''Died:''' 22 August 1599
'''Died:''' 22 August 1599


'''Biography'''
'''Biography''' Marenzio's birth year is based on his father's statement that he was 35 years old in 1588, and the date on the conjecture he might have been born on {{CC|St. Luke|his namesake's}} feast day. A singer and lutanist, the title page of {{NoCo|Il primo libro de madrigali a sei voci }} (1581) announces him ''maestro di cappella'' to Cardinal Luigi d’Este, whose 'cappella' to be sure might have had only one member. He spent 1581-6 in Rome, was dismissed from the Florentine court in 1589, and established himself at the Vatican by 1594, entertaining [[John Dowland]] in 1595 before assuming a post in Warsaw at the court of Sigismund III, from whence he returned in 1598.
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==Publications==
==Publications==
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===Madrigals===
===Madrigals===
====Four Voices====
====Four Voices====
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*{{NoCo|Il sesto libro de madrigali a cinque voci}} (1594)
*{{NoCo|Il sesto libro de madrigali a cinque voci}} (1594)
*{{NoCo|Il settimo libro de madrigali a cinque voci}} (1595)
*{{NoCo|Il settimo libro de madrigali a cinque voci}} (1595)
*{{NoCo|L'ottavo libro de' madrigali a cinque voci}} (1598)
*{{NoCo|L'ottavo libro de madrigali a cinque voci}} (1598)
*{{NoCo|Il nono libro de madrigali a cinque voci}} (1599)
*{{NoCo|Il nono libro de madrigali a cinque voci}} (1599)


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*{{NoCo|Il quinto libro de madrigali a sei voci}} (1591)
*{{NoCo|Il quinto libro de madrigali a sei voci}} (1591)
*{{NoCo|Il sesto libro de madrigali a sei voci}} (1595)
*{{NoCo|Il sesto libro de madrigali a sei voci}} (1595)
 
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====Misc.====
====Misc.====
*{{NoCo|Il primo libro de madrigali a quattro, cinque et sei voci}} (1588)
*{{NoCo|Il primo libro de madrigali a quattro, cinque et sei voci}} (1588)
====Englished versions====
*''[[Musica Transalpina]]'' (vol. 1 1588; vol. 2 1597)
*[[Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 14|''Novello's Part-Song Book'' (2nd series), Vol. 14]] (c.1875)


===Villanellas===
===Villanellas===
*{{NoCo|Il primo libro delle villanelle a tre voci}} (1584)
*{{NoCo|Il primo libro delle villanelle a tre voci}} (1584)
*{{NoCo|Il secondo libro delle villanelle a tre voci}} (1585)
*{{NoCo|Il secondo libro delle villanelle a tre voci}} (1585)
*{{NoCo|Il Terzo libro delle villanelle a tre voci}} (1585)
*{{NoCo|Il terzo libro delle villanelle a tre voci}} (1585)
*{{NoCo|Il Quarto libro delle villanelle a tre voci}} (1587)
*{{NoCo|Il quarto libro delle villanelle a tre voci}} (1587)
*{{NoCo|Il quinto libro delle villanelle a tre voci}} (1587)
*{{NoCo|Il quinto libro delle villanelle a tre voci}} (1587)


===Sacred Publications===
===Sacred Publications===
*{{NoCo|Motectorum pro festis totius anni}} (1585)
*{{NoCo|Motectorum pro festis totius anni}} (1585)
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==External links==
==External links==
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Revision as of 23:02, 13 March 2020

Luca Marenzio

Life

Born: October 18(?) 1553, or 1554

Died: 22 August 1599

Biography Marenzio's birth year is based on his father's statement that he was 35 years old in 1588, and the date on the conjecture he might have been born on his namesake's feast day. A singer and lutanist, the title page of Il primo libro de madrigali a sei voci (1581) announces him maestro di cappella to Cardinal Luigi d’Este, whose 'cappella' to be sure might have had only one member. He spent 1581-6 in Rome, was dismissed from the Florentine court in 1589, and established himself at the Vatican by 1594, entertaining John Dowland in 1595 before assuming a post in Warsaw at the court of Sigismund III, from whence he returned in 1598.

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Madrigals

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Misc.

Englished versions

Villanellas

Sacred Publications

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