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Salamone Rossi (ca. 1570 – 1630) was an Italian violinist and composer. He was a transitional figure between the late Italian Renaissance period and early Baroque. Events January 23 - The assassination of regent James Stewart, Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war February 25 - Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England with the bull Regnans in Excelsis May 20 - Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas. ...
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A violinist is an instrumentalist who plays the violin. ...
Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1400 to 1600. ...
Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 and 1750 (see Dates of classical music eras for a discussion of the problems inherent in defining the beginning and end points). ...
As a young man, Rossi, who was Jewish, acquired a reputation as a talented violinist. He was then hired (in 1587) as a court musician in Mantua, where records of his activities as a violinist survive. For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ...
1587 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ...
Mantua (in Italian Mantova, in the local dialect of Emiliano-Romagnolo language Mantua) is an important city in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province with the same name. ...
Rossi served at the court of Mantua, by request of the duchess Isabella d'Este Gonzaga, from 1587 to 1628 where he entertained the royal family and their highly esteemed guests. The composers Rossi, Monteverdi, Gastoldi, Wert and Viadana provided fashionable music for banquets, wedding feasts, theatre productions and chapel services amongst others. Isabella dEste painted by Titian Isabella dEste (18 May 1474 - 13 February 1539, death at 65 years old) was marchesa of Mantua and one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance and a major cultural and political figure. ...
The Gonzaga family ruled Mantua in Northern Italy from 1328 to 1708. ...
1587 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ...
1628 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ...
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Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (active 1582 - 1609), was an Italian Baroque composer. ...
Giaches de Wert (1535 – May 6, 1596) was a Franco-Flemish composer active in Italy. ...
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (usually Lodovico Viadana, though his given name was Grossi) (c. ...
His first published work (released in 1589) was a collection of 19 canzonettes, short, dance-like compositions for a trio of voices with lighthearted, amorous lyrics. Rossi also flourished in his composition of more serious madrigals, combining the poetry of the greatest poets of the day (e.g. Guarini, Marino, Rinaldi, and Celiano) with his melodies. Events Rebellion of the Catholic League against King Henry III of France, in revenge for his murder of Duke Henry of Guise. ...
In music, a canzonetta (pl. ...
A madrigal is a setting for two or more voices of a secular text, often in Italian. ...
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In the field of instrumental music Rossi was a bold innovator. He was one of the first composers to apply to instrumental music the principles of monodic song, in which one melody dominates over secondary accompanying parts. His sonatas, among the first in the literature, provided for the development of an idiomatic and virtuoso violin technique. They stand mid-way between the homogeneous textures of the instrumental canzona of the late Renaissance and the trio sonata of the mature Baroque. Caccini, Le Nuove musiche, 1601, title page In poetry, monody is a poem in which one person laments anothers death. ...
A violin sonata is a musical composition for solo violin, often (but not always) accompanied by a piano or other keyboard instrument, or by figured bass in the Baroque. ...
The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. ...
Canzona (also canzone) is a poetic form, and a type of musical composition. ...
Rossi also published a collection of Jewish liturgical music, השירים אשר לשלמה (Ha-shirim asher l'Shlomo, The Songs of Solomon) in 1623. This was written in the Baroque tradition and (almost) entirely unconnected to traditional Jewish cantorial music. This was an unprecedented development in synagogal music, as until recently polyphonic music in the synagogue had been forbidden following the destruction of the Temple. The biblical Song of Solomon does not appear within The Songs of Solomon, hence the name is probably a pun on Rossi's first name (Rikko 1969). A stone (2. ...
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Salamone Rossi probably died either in the invasion of Austrian troops, who destroyed the Jewish ghettos in Mantua, or in the subsequent plague which ravaged the area.
Rossi's sister, Madama Europa, was an opera singer, and possibly the first Jewish woman to be professionally engaged in that area.
Reference Nettle, Paul and Theodore Baker (1931). "Some Early Jewish Musicians" in The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 1. (Jan., 1931), pp. 40-46. ISSN 0027-4631 .
Rikko, Fritz (1969). "Salamon Rossi, Hashirim Asher Lish'Lomo (The Songs of Solomon)" in The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 55, No. 2 (Apr., 1969), pp. 269-275
External links
Recordings - The Songs of Solomon, Volume I: Music for the Sabbath. New York Baroque; Eric Milnes, Director. Pro Gloria Musicae PGM 108
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