Annibale Coma
Annibale Coma
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About Annibale Coma
Annibale Coma was a Mantuan madrigalist and organist active in the later sixteenth century. Born in Mantua around 1543, he served as organist of Mantua Cathedral from 1570 to 1580, with a brief period in the winter of 1576–77 when he was drawn into Gonzaga court service. His surviving reputation rests on madrigals. Coma published a sequence of books between 1568 and 1588, including Il primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, Il terzo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, Il quarto libro de madrigali a cinque voci, and the Secondo libro de madrigali a quattro voci of 1588, the last tied to RISM C 3478. His dedicatees place him firmly in the aristocratic musical networks of Mantua, Guastalla, Ferrara, and Verona. Individual madrigals such as Da te chieggio pietate, Cantavan tre leggiadre, Come tutto m’ardete, Vidi da duo bei lumi, and Semplicetta farfalla circulated beyond his single-author books through anthologies and later reprints. His writing shows a flexible late-Renaissance madrigalian craft, attentive to text, contrast, and even visual notation effects.
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