Requiems by Giovanni Croce and Giovanni Rovetta
Series: Baroque Era Publisher: A-R Editions
This edition is part of the collection The Requiem Mass at St. Mark's, Venice
Requiems by Giovanni Croce and Giovanni Rovetta
The Requiem Mass at St. Mark’s, Venice, in the Seventeenth Century
Edited by Jonathan R. J. Drennan
B238 Requiems by Giovanni Croce and Giovanni Rovetta
978-1-9872-0865-8
Full Score (2023)
9x12, xvii + 50 pp.
$140.00
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The present edition is the first volume of three. Collectively, these editions form a critical anthology of requiem masses composed by musicians of San Marco over a long period extending from the late sixteenth century to the closing years of the nineteenth century. The featured musicians of this first edition—Giovanni Croce (ca. 1557–1609) and Giovanni Rovetta (ca. 1596–1668)—may not be very familiar today, and their contributions to music-making at San Marco may not be deemed equal in stature to other masters such as Claudio Monteverdi and Francesco Cavalli, but they were indisputably highly influential figures at different points in Venice’s (and San Marco’s) past. Both requiems are relics of the a cappella tradition at San Marco during the early baroque era, when the famous cathedral served as the doge’s private chapel. These requiem settings are highly accessible, and they function as effectively today as they did in the distant past.
Messa da requiem, Giovanni Croce
Introit: Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine
Kyrie
Sequence: Dies irae
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
Messa da requiem, Giovanni Rovetta
Introit: Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine
Kyrie
Sequence: Dies irae
Offertory: Domine Jesu Christe
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
Dr. Jonathan Drennan was Head of London College of Music Examinations, University of West London. Jonathan has edited several scholarly editions of Venetian music; his scholarly writing has uncovered considerable new awareness of the service of Mass at the Basilica of San Marco, as celebrated from the baroque period to the present day.