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Music nowadays is considered like a necessity in each european country
Charles Burney - Musical journey through Italy - 1770
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The biography:
Born in Lucca in 1542, Gioseffo Guami studied in Venice with Adriano Willaert, Annibale Padovano and other teachers of St. Marks chapel. Here he became singer of the cappella grande and probably deputy organist. He composed and published in Venice his first book of madrigals (1565), dedicated to Gioseffo Bonvisi and Ludovico Penitesi, two patrons from Lucca who had financed Guamis education. Highly esteemed in Venice Zarlino defined him an eccellente compositore e sonator dorgano soavissimo Guami frequently appeared in Venetian vocal anthologies.
From 1568 to 1570, Guami was in Munich serving as organist Duke Albert V of Bavaria; after a few years stay in Italy (1574-79), he returned there as capo delli concerti. Because of his duties as teacher, musician and organizer of the courts musical life, he did not composed much, except for his second book of madrigals today no longer extant.
With Albert Vs death in 1579, Guami returned to Lucca as organist at S. Michele for a few years: he had been appointed to this post since 1574, but had never took it up. He married Ortensia Bedini and had three children, all of them musicians. By 1595 he was maestro di cappella in Genoa,...
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Gioseffo
Guami
(Lucca
1542 -
Lucca
1611)
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Vocal music:
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Messe
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In me transierunt, Missa ad imitationem cantiones Orlandicae
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Mottetti
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Mottetti in varie raccolte
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Altre composizioni sacre
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Sacrae cantiones liber primus, 5-10 voci, Venezia 1585
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Lamentationes Hieremiae prophetae, Venezia 1588
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Sacrarum cantionum variis, et choris, et instrumentorum generibus concinendarum, Milano 1608
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Composizioni vocali sacre in varie raccolte
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Altro
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Il primo libro de madrigali, 5 voci, Venezia 1565
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Il terzo libro de madrigali, 5-6 voci, Venezia 1584
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Il quarto libro de madrigali, 5-10 voci, Venezia 1591
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madrigale, Ms
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Composizioni vocali profane in varie raccolte
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Instrumental music:
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Musica solista
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Toccata per organo
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Altro
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Canzonette francese a 4,5,8, Venezia 1601
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Partitura per sonare delle canzonette alla francese, Venezia 1601
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Canzoni in varie raccolte
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Canzoni, Ms
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