Oratio Colombani
Oratio Colombani - Italian composer
Person from Italy
Genres: 16th century, italian
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About Oratio Colombani
Oratio Colombani (c.1550-c.1595), also appearing as Oratio Colombano or Orazio Colombani, was a Veronese Conventual Franciscan composer and chapel master active across northern Italy in the late sixteenth century. Trained by Costanzo Porta, he moved through a series of important ecclesiastical posts, including Vercelli Cathedral, San Francesco Grande in Milan, San Francesco in Brescia, Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice, Urbino Cathedral, and finally the Basilica del Santo in Padua. His music stands at the meeting point of post-Tridentine sacred polyphony and late Renaissance madrigal culture. Sacred works dominate his catalogue, including the six-voice vesper psalms Harmonia super vespertinos omnium solemnitatum psalmos, the nine-voice Li dilettevoli Magnificat, Compline music, motets, and liturgical psalm settings. His secular output includes the Libro secondo de madrigali a cinque voci of 1588 and La fausta selva of 1590, with the 1588 book identifying him as chapel master at the Venetian “Ca grande,” Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari. Colombano’s strongest modern revival has centred on his sacred music. The Brilliant Classics recording Psalms for Six Voices, performed by the Cappella Musicale della Cattedrale di Vercelli under Denis Silano, restores the 1579 Harmonia super vespertinos to sound, revealing a composer fluent in antiphonal dialogue, clear liturgical declamation, and the polished contrapuntal craft of the late Renaissance church.
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