Alessandro Striggio

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[details ←] L’Orfeo - Favola in musica

[details ←] Ecce beatam lucem, 40 voices/viols, vocal,

[details ←] Nascoree La Pena Mia - Score and parts

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♩ Italian composers
♩ Renaissance composers

Born: ca. /1537 1536 — Mantua — Italy

Died: 29 February 1592 — Mantua — Italy

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Music

List of compositions at Netherlands Radio Music Library.

Striggio wrote both sacred and secular music. Among these:

Seven books of madrigals
Two versions of his most famous composition, the madrigal comedy Il cicalamento delle donne al bucato et la caccia... ("The gossip of the women at the laundry").
Motet Ecce beatam lucem, for 40 independent voices, maybe performed in 1568 in Munich
Mass composed in 40 parts, with a 60-voice setting of the final Agnus Dei (most likely composed in 1565/6)

Life

His son, also called Alessandro Striggio, was a librettis, who the the text for Monteverdi’s Orfeo.

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