Alessandro Orologio

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Aliases: Alexander Horologius; Alexandro Horologio

Life

Born: c. 1550-55

Died: 1633?

Biography Orologio is documented as ‘trumpeter and musician’ at the court of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague just before 1580 and became vice-Kapellmeister there in 1603. He travelled extensively, visiting Dresden, Wolfenbüttel, Denmark and Cassel, where he met John Dowland. He was pensioned in Prague in 1613, and appears to have been active till 1633.

View the Wikipedia article on Alessandro Orologio.

List of choral works

 
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Publications

  • Il primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice: Gardano, 1586)
  • Il secondo libro de madrigali a quatro, a cinque, et a sei voci (Dresden, 1589)
  • Canzonette a tre voci libro primo (Venice: Gardano, 1593)
  • Canzonette a tre voci libro secondo (Venice: Gardano, 1594)
  • Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice: Gardano, 1595)
  • Canzonette a tre voci intavolate per sonar di liuto (Venice: Vincenti, 1596)
  • Intradae quinque et sex vocibus liber primus (Helmstedt: Lucius, 1597)
  • Terzo libro de madrigali a cinque et a sei voci (Venice: Vincenti, 1616)
  • Cantica Sion in terra aliena a mysticis Israelitis, octo vocibus concinenda (Venice: Vincenti, 1627)

Orologio's works can also be found in the following anthologies.

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