Michelangelo Rossi (Michel Angelo del Violino) (ca. 1601/1602 – 1656) was a… Read Full Bio ↴Michelangelo Rossi (Michel Angelo del Violino) (ca. 1601/1602 – 1656) was an important Italian composer, violinist and organist of the Baroque era.
Rossi was born in Genova, where he studied with his uncle, Lelio Rossi (1601-1638), at the Cathedral of San Lorenzo. Around the year 1624 he moved to Rome to enter the services of Cardinal Maurizio of Savoy. It was there that he met the madrigal composer Sigismondo d'India as well as the keyboard composer Girolamo Frescobaldi, with whom he may have studied. All but one of his madrigals may date from this period, and they are similar to those of d'India. The circumstances of Rossi's dismissal from the Cardinal's service are unclear.
Rossi's first known opera dates from his second period of Roman service, while in the retinue of the rich Taddeo Barberini. His opera Erminia sul Giordano was premiered during the Carnivale of 1633 at the theatre of the Palazzo Barberini (Rossi himself apparently sang on stage as the sun-god Apollo), and appeared in print four years later. A second opera, Andromeda (1638, partly lost) was first performed in Ferrara in 1638. By 1649, Rossi had returned to Rome and was residing in the palace of Camilo Pamphili (a relative of the Pope), perhaps in semi-retirement. He died in July of 1656 died in Rome and may have been buried in the church of Saint Andrea delle Fratte in Minimi.
Although Rossi was famed as an outstanding violinist in his lifetime, today his reputation rests chiefly on his keyboard music. In particular his 10 Toccatas are highly regarded (amongst these, Toccata VII with its wildly chromatic ending is best known). They are stylistically close to the music of Girolamo Frescobaldi, Carlo Gesualdo and Johann Jakob Froberger, while being individual, and they enjoy a reputation as a significant milestone in the keyboard literature.
Rossi was born in Genova, where he studied with his uncle, Lelio Rossi (1601-1638), at the Cathedral of San Lorenzo. Around the year 1624 he moved to Rome to enter the services of Cardinal Maurizio of Savoy. It was there that he met the madrigal composer Sigismondo d'India as well as the keyboard composer Girolamo Frescobaldi, with whom he may have studied. All but one of his madrigals may date from this period, and they are similar to those of d'India. The circumstances of Rossi's dismissal from the Cardinal's service are unclear.
Rossi's first known opera dates from his second period of Roman service, while in the retinue of the rich Taddeo Barberini. His opera Erminia sul Giordano was premiered during the Carnivale of 1633 at the theatre of the Palazzo Barberini (Rossi himself apparently sang on stage as the sun-god Apollo), and appeared in print four years later. A second opera, Andromeda (1638, partly lost) was first performed in Ferrara in 1638. By 1649, Rossi had returned to Rome and was residing in the palace of Camilo Pamphili (a relative of the Pope), perhaps in semi-retirement. He died in July of 1656 died in Rome and may have been buried in the church of Saint Andrea delle Fratte in Minimi.
Although Rossi was famed as an outstanding violinist in his lifetime, today his reputation rests chiefly on his keyboard music. In particular his 10 Toccatas are highly regarded (amongst these, Toccata VII with its wildly chromatic ending is best known). They are stylistically close to the music of Girolamo Frescobaldi, Carlo Gesualdo and Johann Jakob Froberger, while being individual, and they enjoy a reputation as a significant milestone in the keyboard literature.
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Toccata settima
Michelangelo Rossi Lyrics
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Braulio Fuentes Zevallos
Pure beauty! ❤
MrGer2295
Awesome ! Thank you so much :)
Harpsichord Vinyl Gallery
This is one of the pieces for the Harpsichord competition in Brugge August 2018 ;-)
Emanuel Fernández
AMAZING!
salamanje
the very beginning gives me goosebumps...
Highinsight7
don't know what's more wonderful... the piece... OR the playing...????
Jackson Hancock
Shows that common time doesn't have to be all that common.
Luna Aktaş
Actually, there is no such thing as common time since it is a deviation from its original meaning. The 'c' was actually a half circle, which meant Tempus Imperfectum (imperfect time), where the whole circle meant tempus perfectum and was used to denote 3/4, 3/2 or 3/1. Yes, three, contrarily to this day, was the "common" and "perfect" time back then, for it symbolised, as it is believed, the Holy Trinity.
ipercalisse
3:22 the Shepard tone!!!!!
Ton Bil
@gerubach Interesting project. With the score so close, i.e. so little of the page or even line visible, it is not visually "floating" and thus hard on my eyes. #justsaying