Gasparo Alberti (c. 1489 – c. 1560) was an Italian composer.
He was born in Padua, and worked through the ranks at the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, in Bergamo, starting as a cleric in 1503, and eventually becoming maestro di cappella by 1536. Padua ( Padova 'padova Latin: Patavium, Padoa) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy. The Latin word basilica (derived from Greek, Basiliké Stoà, Royal Stoa) was originally used to describe a Roman The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore is a church in Bergamo, northern Italy. Bergamo ( Bèrghem in Lombard, antiquated Wälsch-Bergen in German) is a town in Lombardy, Italy, about Kapellmeister (kəˈpɛlˌmaɪstər is a German word designating a person in charge of music-making He was forced to retire in 1550, but was reappointed and worked there until 1559. Alberti was one of the first composers to use a number of new techniques, including the use of cori spezzati and salmi spezzati, especially within the Passion, where he used it for both the turba and the words of Jesus, or vox Christi. The Venetian polychoral style was a type of music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras which involved spatially separate Choirs singing in alternation This article describes the Christian Passion For other meanings see Passion. Turba literally means Crowd in Latin. It may refer more specifically to any text in the biblical Passion of Jesus which is spoken by any Alberti's Passions were the first to set Jesus' words polyphonically. Although he was an early user of these techniques, he is not believed to have originated them or disseminated them significantly. Despite this, he was an important force in Italian sacred music, especially in the period before Palestrina. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (between 3 February 1525 and 2 February 1526 - 2 February 1594 was an Italian Composer of the Renaissance. His book of masses was the first to be published by a single Italian composer. Alberti's works were rediscovered by Danish musicologist Knud Jeppesen in the 1960s. Knud Jeppesen ( 15 August 1892 – 14 June 1974) was a Danish Composer, Musicologist and writer on the history [1]
References
Ravizza, Victor; Gary Towne. "Gasparo Alberti", Grove Music Online. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an Encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians
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| NAME | Alberti, Gasparo |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Italian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | c. 1489 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Padua, Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | c. 1560 |
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