Orazio Faà
Orazio Faà
Genres: 16th century, italian
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About Orazio Faà
There is very little biographical information on this musician, born in Casale Monferrato in the first half of the 16th century from an aristocratic family originally from Fontanile. If F. is to be identified with Orazio Faa 'biographed by Manno, he was commissioner of the Annona in Casale in 1594; in 1588 he had been invested with Bruno's fief, which he himself had previously bought (the fief was later erected as a committee, in favor of his son Ortensio). He himself declares himself in the dedications of the works "gentleman of Casale Monferrato" and, although there is no evidence of his musical training, it is likely that it took place in his hometown, where he was in family relations with the Gonzagas, marquises of Mantua and Monferrato; this would be demonstrated by the dedication to Guglielmo Gonzaga, a musician himself, After dedicating himself also to the composition of sacred music, he published a collection of psalms and Magnificats for the interest of the canon and chapel master of the cathedral of Casale, Giovanni Andrea Botta, which would testify to the consideration that F. enjoyed in the artistic circles of the city . Among other things, according to the testimony of Botta himself who affirms that "in his honored house many virtuosos concur to recreate the soul of the harmony of his pilgrim compositions" (Martinotti), his activity as an amateur musician and belonging to the aristocratic world they favored the knowledge and diffusion of his madrigal production performed at the Gonzaga court and in his own home. We do not know the exact date of the death of F., which took place in Casale Monferrato after 1594. Three of his compositions are remembered: The first book of madrigals for five voices , Venice, Antonio Gardano, 1569, dedicated to Guglielmo Gonzaga (the collection includes twenty-nine madrigals on poetic texts by Petrarch and T. Tasso and is kept in the Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek of Vienna); The second book of madrigals for five and six voices , with two dialogues , one for eight , and the other for ten , Venice, the sons of Antonio Gardano, 1571, dedicated to Vincenzo Gonzaga and including twenty-three compositions based on texts by Petrarch (Vienna, Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek; Modena, Estense Library, Mus . G. 73);Psalms of David the prophet with three Magnificats , and other compositions for five , six and eight voices , ibid. 1573, dedicated to Botta and preserved in Bologna, Civic Musical Bibliographic Museum, later reprinted "with some psalms that were missing", together with three psalms by A. Mortaro in Brescia, Tomaso Bozzola, 1587 (London, British Library; Lucca, Biblioteca del Archiepiscopal Seminary; Piacenza, Duomo Archive). A motet by F., together with compositions by M. Asola, F. Guerrero, T. Riccio, V. Ruffo, M. Varotto was included in the collection of F. Linder, Magnificat , Beatissimae Deiparaeque Virginis Mariae canticum , quinque et quatuor vocibus , secundum octo vulgares musicae modos ,a diversis nostrae aetatis musicis compositum ..., Nürnberg, C. Gerlach 1591, examples of which are preserved in the Sächsische Landesbibliothek in Dresden, in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, in the British Library in London and in the Ratsschulbibliothek in Zwickau.
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