Luzzasco Luzzaschi

Luzzasco Luzzaschi (c. 1545 – 10 September 1607) was an Italian composer, organist, and teacher of the late Renaissance. He was
born and died in Ferrara, and despite evidence of travels to Rome[1] it is assumed that Luzzaschi spent the majority of his life in his
native city. He was a skilled representative of the late Italian madrigal style, along with Palestrina, Wert, Monte, Lassus, Marenzio,
Gesualdo and others.

Contents
Biography
Works
Sources
References
External links

Biography
As a pupil of Cipriano de Rore, Luzzaschi developed his craft and eventually came to be an influential pedagogue himself. Anthony
Newcomb writes:

The members of the Roman school, beginning with Ercole Pasquini and succeeded by Frescobaldi himself, were
entirely trained by Luzzaschi. The neapolitians around Gesualdo and Macque admired and closely followed
Luzzaschi’s work; some came north to study withLuzzaschi personally.”[2]

In 1564, Luzzaschi was appointed as principal organist to the d'Este court. His facility as a keyboard player must have been
paramount, for his competence onNicola Vicentino's microtonal archicembalo was actively documented throughout his career
.

Luzzaschi is widely remembered due to his association with the famous Concerto delle donne, a private female vocal ensemble
founded by Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara. In addition to his duties as court organist, as director for the ensemble he composed expert
madrigals that required virtuosic vocal skill and advanced musicianship. Expressing a highly ornamented soprano line, his famous
publication, Madrigali...per cantare, et sonare, a uno, e doi, e tre soprani of 1601 contained repertory performed by this expert
troupe.[3]

Works
Luzzaschi’s surviving canon is limited to: seven books (1571 through 1604) of madrigals for five voices; the 1601 Madrigali per
cantare et sonare a 1-3 soprani; a collection of five-part motets; and four keyboard works. While reference to three books of four-
[4]
voice ricercars by Luzzaschi indicates that he was actively composing instrumental work, the books themselves appear to be lost.

Il primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci(1571)

Sources
Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954. ISBN 0-393-09530-4
 The Concise Edition of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
, 8th ed. Revised by Nicolas Slonimsky
. New
York, Schirmer Books, 1993.ISBN 0-02-872416-X

References
1. Claude V. Palisca and Emilio de’ Cavalieri. “Musical Asides in the Diplomatic Correspondence of Emilio de’
Cavalieri,” The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 3 (1963) 353.
2. Anthony Newcomb. “Il Modo di far la Fantasia: An Appreciation of Luzzaschi’
s Instrumental Style,” Early Music, Vol
7, No. 1 (1979) 34.
3. Edmond Strainchamps."Luzzaschi, Luzzasco."(http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/17
234), Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online - Accessed October 13, 2009
4. Anthony Newcomb. “Il Modo di far la Fantasia: An Appreciation of Luzzaschi’
s Instrumental Style,” Early Music, Vol
7, No. 1 (1979) 34.

External links
Free scores by Luzzasco Luzzaschiat the International Music Score Library Project(IMSLP)
Free scores by Luzzasco Luzzaschiin the Choral Public Domain Library(ChoralWiki)

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