Tiburzio Massaino (also Massaini and Tiburtio) (

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, before 1550 –

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or Lodi, after 1608) was an Italian

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Life

He was an Augustinian friar in

. He became ''maestro di cappella'' at S Maria del Popolo in Rome in 1571. He moved to

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in 1578, Lodi in 1580 and

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in 1587 before arriving at

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in the service of Archduke Ferdinand II in 1589-1590. He is registered then in

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in 1591; in Prague where he met

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till 1594 when he left for Piacenza and

. He was again in Piacenza in 1598 before being ''maestro di cappella'' in Lodi (1600–1608).

Adriano Banchieri Adriano Banchieri ( Bologna, 3 September 1568 – Bologna, 1634) was an Italian composer, music theorist, organist and poet of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He founded the Accademia dei Floridi in Bologna. Biography He w ...

reports he was ''maestro di cappella'' in Piacenza in 1609.

Works

Sacred works

*Concentus in universos psalmos … in vesperis omnium festorum per totum annum frequentatos, cum 3 Magnificat, 5, 9vv (1576 and 1588) *Motectorum liber primus, 5, 6vv (1576) *Missae liber primus: Missa ‘Rorate coeli’, Missa ‘Nuncium vobis’, Missa ‘Omnes gentes’, 5, 6vv (1578) *Sacri cantus … liber secundus, 5vv (1580) *Psalmi omnes ad vesperas per totum annum decantandi, una cum Magnificat, 8vv (1587) *Secundus liber missarum, 5vv (1587) *Motectorum … liber tertius, 5vv (1590) *Liber primus cantionum ecclesiasticarum, 4vv (Prague, 1592; 1580 edn cited in FétisB); ed. In DTÖ, cx (1964) *Sacrae cantiones … liber primus, 6vv (1592) *Sacri modulorum concentus, 6–10, 12vv (1592) *Primus liber missarum, 6vv (1595) *Sacrae cantiones … liber secundus, 6vv (1596) *Tertius liber missarum, 5vv (1598) *Motectorum liber quartus, 5vv (1599) *Musica super Threnos Ieremiae prophete in maiori hebdomada decantandas, 5vv (1599) *Missarum liber primus, 8vv (1600) *Sacrae cantiones … liber tertius, 6vv (1601) *Sacri modulorum concentus, 8–10, 12, 15, 16vv, op.31 (1606) *Musica per cantare con l'organo, 1–3vv, org, op.32 (160719) *Sacrarum cantionum liber primus, 7vv, bc (org), op.33 (1607) *Quaerimoniae cum responsoriis infra hebdomadam sanctam concinendae, et passiones pro Dominica Palmarum, & feria sexta, 5vv (1609) *420 Bongerino Masterino *2 masses *3 Magnificats, *21 motets, *20 other sacred vocal works

Secular works

*Il primo libro de madrigali, 4vv (1569) *Il primo libro de madrigali, 5vv (1571) *Il secondo libro de madrigali, 4vv (1573) *Il secondo libro de madrigali, 5vv (1578) *Trionfo di musica … libro primo, 6vv (15793) *Il terzo libro de madrigali, 5vv (1587) *Il quarto libro de madrigali, 5vv (1594) *Madrigali … libro primo, 6vv (1604) *Il secondo libro de madrigali, 6vv (1604) *4 madrigals, 5, 6vv

Instrumental

*3 canzonas, 4 madrigals transcribed for lute *3 canzonas

Sources

*David Bryant's article in New Grove Dictionary of Music

Notes

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Massaino, Tiburzio Italian male classical composers Italian Renaissance composers Musicians from Cremona 16th-century births 17th-century deaths