Vincenzo Ruffo (c. 1508 – February 9, 1587) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance. Events 474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1400 - 1600 He was one of the composers most responsive to the musical reforms suggested by the Council of Trent, especially in his composition of masses, and as such was an influential member of the Counter-Reformation. The Council of Trent was the 19th Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. For other uses see Mass (disambiguation The Mass, a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition that The Counter-Reformation (also Catholic Reformation denotes the period of Catholic revival from the pontificate of Pope Pius IV in 1560 to the close of the
Vincenzo Ruffo was born at Verona, and became a priest there in 1531. Verona is a city and provincial capital in Veneto, Northern Italy. Most likely he studied with Biagio Rossetti, the organist at the cathedral in Verona. Biagio Rossetti, (c 1447 &ndash 1516 was an Italian Architect and Urbanist from Ferrara. Ruffo published his first book of music in 1542. Also in 1542 he became maestro di cappella at the cathedral in Savona, but he only held this position for a year; the cathedral was destroyed in 1543 by the Genoese, and Ruffo fled. This article is about the Italian city For the small town of Savona Canada please see Savona British Columbia, or the village in the USA, see Savona
In either 1543 or 1544 he went to Milan to work for Alfonso d'Avalos, who was the governor of Milan at this time. Milan (Milano Milan (listen) is one of the largest cities in Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. Alfonso d'Avalos d'Aquino Marchese di Pescara e del Vasto ( 1502 - March 31 1546) was an Italian Condottiero When d'Avalos was called back to Madrid in 1546, Ruffo went back to in Verona, where he was the music director at the Accademia Filarmonica in 1551-1552, superseding Jan Nasco; in 1554 he became the choirmaster at the cathedral of Verona. Jan Nasco (c 1510 – 1561 was a Franco-Flemish composer and writer on music mainly active in Italy While there he probably taught Gian Matteo Asola and Marc' Antonio Ingegneri, the teacher of Monteverdi; it is possible, though not proven, that he taught Andrea Gabrieli there as well. Giammatteo Asola (also spelled Gian Matteo, Giovanni Matteo; Asula, Asulae) (1532 or earlier – October 1, 1609) was an Marc'Antonio Ingegneri (also spelled Ingegnieri, Ingignieri, Ingignero, Inzegneri; c Andrea Gabrieli (1532/1533? – August 30, 1585) was an Italian Composer and Organist of the late Renaissance.
His music during this time was strongly influenced by the Franco-Flemish school, but when he in 1563 became maestro di cappella in the cathedral of Milan under Carlo Borromeo, he began composing in the Tridentine style of which Borromeo was a strong supporter. In Music, the Franco-Flemish School refers somewhat imprecisely to the style of polyphonic Vocal music composition in Europe in the 15th Saint Charles Borromeo (Carlo Borromeo Latinized as Carolus Borromeus) ( October 2 1538 – November 3 1584) is an The Council of Trent was the 19th Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. One of the criticisms of the Council of Trent was that music had become so contrapuntally complex that it was impossible the understand the words being sung: Ruffo responded by composing masses in as simple a style as was consistent with clear expression of the text. Late in his life, however, he evidently became dissatisfied with composing masses in a strictly chordal style and returned to using a moderately contrapuntal style. In Music, texture is the overall quality of sound of a piece, most often indicated by the number of voices in the music and by the relationship between
In 1572 he became the maestro di cappella at Pistoia, and then Milan again; for his final job he had a similar employment at the cathedral in Sacile, where he died in 1587. Pistoia is a city in the Tuscany region of Italy, the capital of a province of the same name, located about 30 km west and north of Florence Sacile is a town in the Province of Pordenone, in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of north-east Italy.
References
- Percy A. Scholes The Oxford Companion to Music; Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-311306-6 (1938). Percy Alfred Scholes (1877&ndash1958 was an English musician journalist and prolific writer whose best-known achievement was his compilation of the first edition of The Oxford Companion to Music is a popular music reference book in the series of Oxford Companions produced by the Oxford University Press
- Lewis Lockwood, "Vincenzo Ruffo," in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd. , 1980. ISBN 1-56159-174-2
- Musique Renaissance
- Here of a Sunday Morning
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