Cipriano de rore biography of mahatma

Renaissance composer famous for his madrigals; b. Low Countries (Mechlin or Antwerp), 1516; d. Parma, Italy, 1565. He studied with willaert in Venice, and his early madrigals (1542–44) already show unusual talent.

Cipriano de rore biography of mahatma gandhi

By 1546 he was maestro in Ferrara at the court of Ercole II, succeeding vicentino. In 1561 he joined the court of Ottavio Farnese in Parma, and he remained there until his death, except for a brief stay in Venice as Willaert's successor at St.

Mark's. His Masses are in traditional style; the motets mediate between this and the madrigals. He relied for texts on Petrarch (e.g., the Vergine bella ) but later turned to contemporary sonnet writers, such as Parabosco, Spira, and Molino.

Despite the danger that such expressive poetry might dominate the music, compositional unity was artfully maintained. Stylistically he was influenced by Willaert; his own influence on Lasso, Monte, Palestrina, and even on Monteverdi was so great that he might safely b