Girolamo Vespa
Girolamo Vespa
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About Girolamo Vespa
Girolamo Vespa (fl. later sixteenth century; active after 1596) was a Neapolitan Conventual Franciscan composer and chapel master active in the later sixteenth century. His career is tied above all to the musical institutions of the Marches, especially Osimo, Fermo, and Ascoli, where he worked as a Franciscan maestro di cappella and contributed to the sacred and secular repertory of post-Tridentine Italy. His music survives in both sacred and madrigal prints. The sacred side includes Psalmi vespertini a cinque voci and Sacrae cantiones, while his secular output includes a sequence of five-voice madrigal books published in Venice. The 1591 Il quarto libro de madrigali a cinque voci identifies him as Girolamo Vespa da Napoli, maestro di cappella at Osimo Cathedral, and preserves madrigals such as Cresca invitto il bel germe, Donna s’a me togliesti, Baci sospiri e voci, and Chi vuol veder in terra primavera. Vespa’s profile is that of a Franciscan professional musician whose works moved between local cathedral practice and the wider Venetian print economy. His 1596 recognition as magister musicae within the Conventual Franciscan order places him in distinguished company with Costanzo Porta and Ludovico Balbi, marking him as one of the order’s notable polyphonic composers.
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