Michele Pesenti
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Michele Pesenti is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...
c. 1470 – after 1524) was an Italian composer and lutenist who served the House of Este at Ferrara
Ferrara
Ferrara is a city and comune in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital city of the Province of Ferrara. It is situated 50 km north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located 5 km north...
. Michele Pesenti. was one of the most lively
and inventive of the so-called frottola
Frottola
The frottola was the predominant type of Italian popular, secular song of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. It was the most important and widespread predecessor to the madrigal...
composers, including Marchetto Cara
Marchetto Cara
Marchetto Cara was an Italian composer, lutenist and singer of the Renaissance. He was mainly active in Mantua, was well-connected with the Gonzaga and Medici families, and along with Bartolomeo Tromboncino, was well known as a composer of frottolas.-Life:Next to nothing is known of his early life...
and Bartolomeo Tromboncino
Bartolomeo Tromboncino
Bartolomeo Tromboncino was an Italian composer of the middle Renaissance. He is mainly famous as a composer of frottola; he is principally infamous for murdering his wife...
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Selected recordings
- "Ha' tu veduto un mio vitellin bianco" on La Favola di Orfeo 1494, reconstruction of a Florentine entertainment, by Huelgas EnsembleHuelgas EnsembleThe Huelgas Ensemble is a Belgian early music group formed by the Flemish conductor Paul Van Nevel in 1971. The group's performance and extensive discography focuses on renaissance polyphony...
, dir. Paul Van NevelPaul Van NevelPaul Van Nevel is a Belgian conductor, musicologist and art historian. In 1971 he founded the Huelgas Ensemble, a choir dedicated to polyphony from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Van Nevel is known for hunting out little known polyphonic medieval works to perform.He grew up in a musical...
. Seon. - frottolaFrottolaThe frottola was the predominant type of Italian popular, secular song of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. It was the most important and widespread predecessor to the madrigal...
: "Non mi doglio gia d'amore" on Banchetti Musicali a la Corte Estense. by La Bottega musicale Ferrarese. Bongiovanni GB 5001 (LP) 1985 - frottolaFrottolaThe frottola was the predominant type of Italian popular, secular song of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. It was the most important and widespread predecessor to the madrigal...
: "Dal lecto me levava" on Barzellette - Frottole Italiane del Cinquecento. by Retrover dir. Markus Tapio, Opus111 30-243 1998 - villotaVillotaFrancisco Villota was a Spanish pelotari who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.Villota competed in the only official pelota contest in Olympic history, the Basque pelota at the 1900 Summer Olympics two-man teams event. He and his partner José de Amézola y Aspizúa defeated the...
: "Quando lo pomo vien da lo pomaro" on Cantar alla Pavana Canzoni, Frottole, Villotte e Madrigali dell'Apografo Miscellaneo Marciano (1526) (music from fragments in the Marciana Library, Venice) by Consort Veneto dir. Giovanni Toffano, Tactus 520002 - "Alhor quando arivava" on Cigni, Capre, Galli e Grilli. by Fortuna Ensemble dir. Roberto Cascio, Tactus 460301 1998
- instrumental: "Un cavalier di Spagna" on Musica dell'epoca di Cristoforo Colombo