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Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque EraGiovanni RovettaMessa, e salmi concertati, op. 4 (1639) Edited by Linda Maria Koldau
Giovanni Rovetta (ca. 1597-1668) is best known as Claudio Monteverdi's successor as maestro di cappella at St. Mark's in Venice. While sometimes overshadowed by his great predecessor, Rovetta was one of the most outstanding figures in Venetian musical life of the seventeenth century. His works include five large collections of sacred music (with vesper psalms and mass settings), four volumes of concertato motets, two books of concertato madrigals, two operas, and numerous other works found in various printed anthologies and manuscripts. As such, his music offers almost the complete variety of vocal and instrumental genres and styles, both sacred and secular, that were current in the Seicento. Music Sample (B 109) Music Sample (B110) See the comments about this edition and others. |