Zhyash de Werth , Jacques de Werth ( Dutch Giaches de Vuert , French Jacques de Wert ; 1535 , Werth, province of Antwerp - May 6, 1596 , Mantova ) - Flemish composer . The heyday of creative activity is associated with Italy.
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Biography and Creativity
Around 1550, de Wert was transported (probably at the initiative of an influential Neapolitan family) to Avellino (near Naples ), where he worked as a singer in the court chapel of Maria di Cardona (see Maria de Cardona ). Throughout his life he was associated with the houses of Este and Gonzaga . Between 1550 and 1555 he met with Cipriano de Rora . In the first half of the 1560s he worked as bandmaster in Milan (Werth's letters with a description of the cultural and social life of Milan at that time were preserved). In 1565 he joined the bandmaster of the palace chapel of the Duke Guglielmo Gonzaga in Mantua , in the Basilica of St. Barbara (until 1592 ). He accompanied the duke on foreign trips ( Augsburg , 1566). He was buried in the crypt of the Basilica of St. Barbara.
In 1558 - 1595 he published 15 collections of secular works on the verses of Petrarch , Bembo , Ariosto , Guarini , Tasso and other poets; of which the most significant are madrigals (including those using the note nere technique). He also wrote motets to Latin spiritual texts. The student of de Werth was Claudio Monteverdi . The science discusses the possible influence of de Werth's mannerist music on Gesualdo .
Works (selection)
Note. All de Verta's original collections are first published in Venice
Secular music
- Il primo libro de madrigali a5 (1558)
- Il primo libro de madrigali a4 (1561)
- Madrigale del fiore, libro primo, a5 (1561)
- Madrigale del fiore, libro secondo, a5 (1561)
- Il terzo libro de madrigali a5 (1563)
- Il secondo libro de madrigali a5 (1564). NB! The third book was published before the second
- Il quarto libro de madrigali a5 (1567)
- Il quinto libro de madrigali a5 (1571)
- Il sesto libro de madrigali a5 (1577)
- Il settimo libro de madrigali a5 (1581)
- L'ottavo libro de madrigali a5 (1586)
- Il nono libro de madrigali a5 (1588)
- Il primo libro delle canzonette villanelle, a5 (1589)
- Il decimo libro de madrigali a5 (1591)
- L'undecimo libro de madrigali a5 (1595)
- Il duodecimo libro de madrigali a4..a7 (posthumous publication, 1608)
A number of secular works by de Wert were published in "multicomposite" collections in 1558-1590.
Motets
- Motectorum liber primus, a5 (1566)
- Il secondo libro de motetti, a5 (1581)
- Modulationum liber primus, a6 (1581)
A number of de Werth's writings on spiritual texts were published in “multicompositor” collections in 1563–1609.
Notes
- ↑ National Library of Australia - 1960.
- ↑ Swartz A. Open Library - 2005.
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ International Music Score Library Project - 2006.
Literature
- Treloar, Stephanie Lynn. The Madrigals of Giaches de Wert: Patrons, Poets, and Compositional Procedures. Ph.D. diss. Harvard University, 2003.
Discography
- Vox in Rama. Il secondo libro de motetti // Collegium Regale, cond. Stephen Cleobury // Signum SIGD131 // Rec. 2007