Felice anerio wikipedia

Italian composer (1560–1614)

Felice Anerio (c. 1560 – 26 or 27 September 1614) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, and a member of the Roman School of composers. He was the older brother of another important, and somewhat more progressive composer of the same period, Giovanni Francesco Anerio.

Life

Anerio was born in Rome and lived his entire life there. He sang as a boy soprano at the Julian Chapel (the Cappella Giulia) from 1568 until 1577 (by which time he was an alto) and then he sang at another church until 1580. Around this time, he began to compose, especially madrigals; this was one of the few periods in his life during which he wrote secular music. Likely he was influenced by Luca Marenzio, who was hugely popular at the time and who was in Rome at the same time Anerio began composing. By 1584, Anerio had been appointed maestro di cappella at the Collegio degli Inglesi; he also seems to have been the choirmaster at another society of Rome's leading musicians called the vertuosa Compagnia de i Musici di Roma. These positions must have given him considerable opportunity to exercise his compositional talents, for he had already written the music, songs, madrigals, and choruses for an Italian Passion Play by this time. In 1594, he replaced Palestrina as the official composer to the papal choir, which was the most prominent position in Rome for a composer.

In 1607 or shortly afterwards, he became a priest (a common career path for a composer in the Roman School). In conjunction with Francesco Soriano, another composer of the Roman School, he helped to reform the responsories of the Roman Gradual, another of the late activities of the Counter-Reformation in Italy.

Works

Anerio was a conservative composer, who largely used the style of Palestrina as a starting point, at least after his youthful period of writing secular works, such as madrigals and canzone

Felice Anerio (ur. 1560 w Rzymie, zm. 27 września1614 tamże) – włoskiśpiewak, dyrygent i kompozytor; jeden z czołowych przedstawicieli szkoły rzymskiej w muzyce. Był jednym z reformatorów chorału gregoriańskiego zgodnie z założeniami soboru trydenckiego. Wraz z Francescem Soriano dokonał redakcji graduału medycejskiego.

W latach 1568–1574 pobierał nauki u Giovanniego Marii Nanina oraz śpiewał w chórze chłopięcym bazyliki Matki Bożej Większej w Rzymie. Od 1575 do 1579 śpiewał w Cappella Giulia, a w latach 1579-1580 w chórze rzymskiego kościoła św. Ludwika Króla Francji. Od 1585 udzielał lekcji muzyki w Collegio degli Inglesi. Następnie, od 1589, pełnił funkcję dyrygenta Virtuosa Compagnia dei musici di Roma, a w 1594 zastąpił Giovanniego Pierluigiego da Palestrinę na stanowisku kompozytora papieskiej kapeli (był również kontynuatorem jego stylu).

Felice Anerio tworzył wyłącznie utwory wokalne takie jak msze, hymny, kantyki, motety, czy madrigali spirituali (madrygały z tekstem religijnym). Były one wydawane w Rzymie i Wenecji, ale pojawiały się również w zbiorach, m.in. Tabulaturze peplińskiej. Rękopisy jego kompozycji przechowywane są w bibliotekach w Rzymie, Wiedniu, Monachium i Berlinie.

Związany był z dworem kardynała Pietra Aldobrandinieo. Jego ojciec Maurizio oraz brat Giovanni Francesco Anerio również byli muzykami.

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An eminent Roman composer, b. c. 1560; d. c. 1630. From 1575 he was for four years a boy-soprano in the Papal Choir, studying under the celebrated master Nanini. His first appointment was as choirmaster of the English College in Rome, and his next a similar one under Cardinal Aldobrandini. In 1594 he succeeded Palestrina as composer to the Papal Choir, a post created specially for Palestrina, and which ceased with Anerio's death. Several of his compositions, e.g. an "Adoramus Te, Christe" and a "Stabat Mater", for three choirs, passed for a long time as Palestrina's work. Anerio's compositions (which are very numerous) are characterized by originality and fine artistic feeling. Many were printed during the period 1585- 1622. We may mention "First Book of Hymns, Canticles and Motets for eight voices" (Venice, 1596), dedicated to Pope Clement VIII, which was followed later by a second volume, "Three Books of Spiritual Madrigals for Five Voices", "Two Books of Spiritual Concerts for Four Voices". But a large proportion of them exist only in manuscript, and are preserved in various Roman libraries, especially in that of the Roman College.

KORNMÜLLER, Lex. der kirchl. Tonkunst; RIEMANN, Dict. of Music; GROVE, Dict. of Music and Musicians; NAUMANN, Geschichte der Musik.

J.A. VÖLKER