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Giovanni Ghizzolo (Brescia ca. 1580–Novara ca. 1625) was a Franciscan friar, composer of motets and madrigals. From 1613 he was maestro di cappella successively at Correggio, Ravenna, Padua, and ended his life in Novara.[1]
He published eleven prints of sacred music, both in concertato and "a cappella" style, and nine of secular music - three books of polyphonic madrigals for 5 and 6 voices and six (one lost) of madrigals, arias and canzonette for 1-2-3 voices from 1608 till 1623. Some of his sacred music collections have been reprinted several times, until 1640.[2]
His Gioco della cieca, contained in Book 1 of Madrigals, takes 123 verses from Il pastor fido of Giovanni Battista Guarini (Act III, Scene 2), also set by Gastoldi and others, to make a theatrical madrigal-drama.
- ^ Waldo Selden Pratt, The history of music: a handbook and guide for students p200 1927; Ugo Berto, Contributo alla biografia e alle opere di Giovanni Ghizzolo da Brescia, « Rassegna veneta di studi musicali », 2-3, (1986-1987) Claudia Polo, Ghizzolo, Giovanni, « Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani », 54, Istituto per la Enciclopedia Italiana, Roma 2000, pp. 86-87 (online edition http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-ghizzolo_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/
- ^ Oscar Mischiati, Bibliografia delle opere dei musicisti bresciani pubblicate a stampa dal 1497 al 1740. Firenze, Olschki, 1992/