Fabrizio Dentice (also Fabricio, Fabritio) (1539 in

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– 24 February 1581 in

) was an Italian

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

and virtuoso

lute A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck (music), neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lu ...

and

viol The viola da gamba (), or viol, or informally gamba, is a bowed and fretted string instrument that is played (i.e. "on the leg"). It is distinct from the later violin family, violin, or ; and it is any one of the earlier viol family of bow (m ...

player.

Biography

Fabrizio was born into the noble Dentice family. He was the son of Luigi Dentice (1510–1566) who served the powerful

Sanseverino Sanseverino may refer to: * House of Sanseverino, Neapolitan noble family * Antonio Sanseverino, (ca. 1477–1543), Neapolitan cardinal * Ferdinando Sanseverino (1507–1572), prince of Salerno and Italian condottiero * Aurora Sanseverino (1669 ...

family and had a great reputation as a singer and lutenist.T. Crawford, "Lute counterpoint from Naples" in ''Early Music,'' Oxford Journals 2006 Fabrizio was also uncle to the harpsichordist

Scipione Dentice Scipione Dentice (29 January 1560 – 21 April 1633) was a Neapolitan keyboard composer. Early life Scipione was born into the noble Dentice family. His grandfather was Luigi Dentice, the music theorist, and his uncle was Fabrizio Dentice, th ...

(1560–1633).

Musical Editions

* Dinko Fabris. ''Da Napoli a Parma: itinerari d'un musicista aristocratico. Opera vocali di Fabrizio Dentice, 15630ca-1580.'' Rome and Milan: Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, 1998. * Dinko Fabris and John Griffiths (eds). ''Neapolitan Lute Music: Fabrizio Dentice, Giulio Severino, Giovanni Antonio Severino, Francesco Cardone.'' Recent Researches in Music of the Renaissance 140. Madison: A-R Editions, 2004. (Includes all Dentice's known lute music including doubtful ascriptions)

Selected discography

Vocal works: *De Lamentatione Hieremiae on ''Italia Mia, Musical Imagination of the Renaissance''.

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Philippe Verdelot Philippe Verdelot (1480 to 1485–1530 to 1540) was a French composer of the Renaissance, who spent most of his life in Italy. He is commonly considered to be the father of the Italian madrigal, and certainly was one of its earliest and most pro ...

, et al. Sony 1992. *Miserere. on Emilio de Cavalieri Lamentations.

Le Poème Harmonique Le Poème Harmonique is a musical ensemble founded in 1998 by Vincent Dumestre to recreate and promote early music, in particular that of the 17th century. Using rare instruments such as the theorbo, the lirone, the tiorbino and the arpa tripla, ...

dir. Vincent Dumestre, Alpha 2002 *Versetti del Miserere, in falsibordoni del Dentice passeggiati da Donatello Coya eunuco della Real Capella (1622) '54"on ''Magnificat anima mea. Il Culto Mariano e l'Oratorio Filippino nella Napoli del'600.''

Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini Cappella Neapolitana is an early music ensemble based in Naples and dedicated to the recovery of Neapolitan musical heritage, primarily from the baroque era. The Cappella Neapolitana was founded in 2016 by the musicologist and conductor Antonio ...

Symphonia 1996 Instrumental: *2 lute pieces, (with songs by father Luigi Dentice - Come t'haggio lassata, o via mia? Chi me l'havesse dett', o via mia?) on ''Napolitane -

villanelle A villanelle, also known as villanesque,Kastner 1903 p. 279 is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third lines of the first tercet re ...

, arie & moresche (1530-70)''.

Ensemble Micrologus Ensemble Micrologus is an Italian group that performs vocal and instrumental medieval music, including both religious and secular pieces from the 12th to the 16th century in their repertoire. Through research into manuscripts, organology, and icon ...

dir. Florio, Opus111 1999 *''The Siena Lute Book'' Jacob Heringman Avie-AV0036 2004

References

1530s births 1580s deaths Italian male classical composers Italian lutenists Viol players Italian Renaissance composers

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