Giovenale Sacchi ( Italian: Giovenale Sacchi ; November 22, 1726 , Milan - September 27, 1789 , Milan ) - Italian musicologist.
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He studied at the monastic order of the Barnavites and in 1742 he entered the order. He studied philosophy in Pavia, graduating from the University of Pavia in 1749, then taught rhetoric in Lodi . In 1758, he occupied the department of rhetoric at the Barnavite collegium in Milan and remained there for the rest of his life.
Through communication with Padre, Martini Sacchi began writing about music, publishing his first works in 1761. Sacchi's works dealt with the history of music in antiquity, the problems of counterpoint (including a sharp controversy with the ideas of Jean-Philippe Rameau ), as well as the biography of Benedetto Marcello and singer Farinelli . In 1788 he published a treatise "An example of the theory of music" ( lat. Specimen Theoriae Musicae ).
Literature
- A. Luppi. Giovenale Sacchi e la “musica ecclesiastica” tra apologia e progetti di riforma // La musica a Milano, in Lombardia e oltre / Ed. S. Martinotti. - Milan, 1996 .-- P. 109-142. (ital.)