Costanzo Porta ( Italian: Costanzo Porta ; 1529 , Cremona , Duchy of Milan - May 26, 1601 , Padova , Republic of Venice ) - Italian composer , organist and music teacher . One of the leading representatives of the Venice school .
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| Date of Birth | 1529 |
| Place of Birth | Cremona , Duchy of Milan |
| Date of death | May 26, 1601 |
| A place of death | Padova , Republic of Venice |
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| A country |  , Republic of Venice |
| Professions | composer , organist , music teacher |
| Instruments | organ |
| Genres | classical music |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Creative heritage
- 3 Literature
- 4 References
Biography
Costanzo Porta was born in 1529 in Cremona. As a teenager, he joined the Order of the Brothers of the Lesser Conventuals . Little is known about the early period of his life. He was probably educated at the Convent Franciscan Convent of Porta di San Luca in Cremona. In 1550 he became a student of the famous composer Adrian Villart , who (among other things) founded a chapel music school in the Basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice. Here Costanzo Porta met Claudio Merulo , who became his friend.
In 1552, Costanzo Porta received the position of bandmaster in the cathedral in Osimo. At this time, the composer enjoyed the special patronage of Guidobaldo II della Rovere , Duke of Urbino , whose daughter, Virginia della Rovere , in 1559, he dedicated his first collection of madrigals for five voices. In 1565 he arrived at a monastery in Padua, where he was supposed to stay for three years, passing monastic obedience . But in 1567, Cardinal Giulio della Rover called him to Ravenna , appointing chapel chapelmaster in the cathedral. In a short period of time, Costanzo Porta raised the quality of music and performance in the chapel to a high level. The same cardinal, who became the patron of the composer and admirer of his talent, transferred him to the position of chapel-master of the chapel in the Basilica of the Holy House in Loreto , but on September 3, 1578, Giulio della Rovere died in Fossombron .
Shortly afterwards, following a visit to Cardinal Carlo Borromeo , Archbishop of Milan, Constanto Porta, in Loreto, he received an official invitation to lead the chapel in the cathedral in Milan, politely rejected him, sending his pupil, Giulio Cesare Gabussi, in his place .
The composer's fame was so great that many musicians, even those who received recognition, asked him about counterpoint lessons. He spent the last years of his life in Padua, in the convent of the Franciscan Conventuals at the Basilica of St. Anthony of Padua .
Costanzo Porta died in Padua on May 26, 1601.
Creative heritage
The composer's creative heritage includes about 700 spiritual works , including 18 masses for several voices. From the mid-1960s to the beginning of the 1970s, the Pontifical Anthony Library ( Latin Pontificia Biblioteca Antoniana ) published the complete works of Constanta Porta, edited by Giovanni Luisetto and Ciro Cisilino .
Literature
Antonio Garbelotto. Il padre Costanzo Porta da Cremona, OFM Conv: grande polifonista del '500. Ricostruzione critica della vita, attività e opera con lettere e documenti di archivio. Elenco delle opere ed edizioni. Tavole illustrative, facsimili ed esempi musicali . - Roma: Editrice Miscellanea Francescana, 1955 .-- S. 207.
Links
- GR-D. Pòrta unopened . Treccani.it. - Enciclopedia Italiana (1935). (ital.)
- Pòrta, Costanzo . Treccani.it. - Enciclopedie on line. (ital.)