Corteccia: Eleven Works to Latin Texts

Francesco Corteccia (fl. 1539–71) was maestro di cappella at the court of Grand Duke Cosimo I of Florence (r. 1537–74), a patron of many artists and academicians. Corteccia followed Costanza Festa at the head of a long line of native-born composers of the sixteenth century who assumed the chief musical posts in Italy and brought to an end the domination of Italian music by foreigners. Corteccia's manuscript hymnary was a product of his early career, but late in his life he began preparing some of his sacred music for publication. His responsories were published in 1570, and his motets in 1571, after his death.

O Regem caeli

Surge, illuminare Jerusalem

Omnes amici

Velum templi scissum est

O vos omnes

Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel

Tristes erant apostoli

 

Ave maris stella

Haec est Virgo sapiens

Sanctorum meritis

 

Laetare et exsulta civitas praeclara

Howard Slenk, Notes, December 1970.