Tiburtio Massaino, also Massaini (Cremona

Cremona

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, before 1550 – Piacenza

Piacenza

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 or Lodi, after 1608) was an Italian

Italy

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 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

.

Life

Augustinian friar in Piacenza

Piacenza

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 he became maestro di cappella at S Maria del Popolo in Rome in 1571. He moved to Modena

Modena

Modena is a city and comune on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy....

 in 1578, Lodi in 1580 and Salò

Salò

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 in 1587 before arriving in Innsbruck

Innsbruck

- Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...

 at the service of Archduke Ferdinand II in 1589-90. He is registered then in Salzburg

Salzburg

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 in 1591 in Prague where he met Philippe de Monte

Philippe de Monte

Philippe de Monte , sometimes known as Philippus de Monte, was a Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was a member of the 3rd generation madrigalists and wrote more madrigals than any other composer of the time...

 till 1594 when he left to Piacenza

Piacenza

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 and Cremona

Cremona

Cremona is a city and comune in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana . It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local City and Province governments...

. He was again in Piacenza

Piacenza

Piacenza is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Piacenza...

 in 1598 before being maestro idi cappella in Lodi (1600–08). Adriano Banchieri

Adriano Banchieri

Adriano Banchieri was an Italian composer, music theorist, organist and poet of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He founded the Accademia dei Floridi in Bologna.-Biography:...

 reports he was maestro di cappella in Piacenza

Piacenza

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 in 1609.

Sacred Works

• Concentus in universos psalmos … in vesperis omnium festorum per totum annum frequentatos, cum 3 Magnificat, 5, 9vv (1576 and 1588)
• Motectorum liber primus, 5, 6vv (1576)
• Missae liber primus: Missa ‘Rorate coeli’, Missa ‘Nuncium vobis’, Missa ‘Omnes gentes’, 5, 6vv (1578)
• Sacri cantus … liber secundus, 5vv (1580)
• Psalmi omnes ad vesperas per totum annum decantandi, una cum Magnificat, 8vv (1587)
• Secundus liber missarum, 5vv (1587)
• Motectorum … liber tertius, 5vv (1950)
• Liber primus cantionum ecclesiasticarum, 4vv (Prague, 1592; 1580 edn cited in FétisB); ed. In DTÖ, cx (1964)
• Sacrae cantiones … liber primus, 6vv (1592)
• Sacri modulorum concentus, 6–10, 12vv (1592)
• Primus liber missarum, 6vv (1595)
• Sacrae cantiones … liber secundus, 6vv (1596)
• Tertius liber missarum, 5vv (1598)
• Motectorum liber quartus, 5vv (1599)
• Musica super Threnos Ieremiae prophete in maiori hebdomada decantandas, 5vv (1599)
• Missarum liber primus, 8vv (1600)
• Sacrae cantiones … liber tertius, 6vv (1601)
• Sacri modulorum concentus, 8–10, 12, 15, 16vv, op.31 (1606)
• Musica per cantare con l'organo, 1–3vv, org, op.32 (160719)
• Sacrarum cantionum liber primus, 7vv, bc (org), op.33 (1607)
• Quaerimoniae cum responsoriis infra hebdomadam sanctam concinendae, et passiones pro Dominica Palmarum, & feria sexta, 5vv (1609)

• 2 masses
• 3 Magnificats,
• 21 motets,
• 20 other sacred vocal works

Secular Works

• Il primo libro de madrigali, 4vv (1569)
• Il primo libro de madrigali, 5vv (1571)
• Il secondo libro de madrigali, 4vv (1573)
• Il secondo libro de madrigali, 5vv (1578)
• Trionfo di musica … libro primo, 6vv (15793)
• Il terzo libro de madrigali, 5vv (1587)
• Il quarto libro de madrigali, 5vv (1594)
• Madrigali … libro primo, 6vv (1604)
• Il secondo libro de madrigali, 6vv (1604)
• 4 madrigals, 5, 6vv

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