Philippe de Monte (1521-1603)
- Missa a 6 'Missa sine nomine'
Performers: La Capella Ducale; Roland Wilson (conductor)
Further info: Musica Sacra In Colonia
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Flemish composer. It is likely that he received his first musical
training as a choirboy at St Rombouts Cathedral in Mechelen. He was
employed early on as an instructor to the children of the Genovese
banker Domenico Pinelli, in Naples. He then went to Rome, where he
published his first book of madrigals (1554), and from Rome to Antwerp
in 1554, and then to England, where he served as 'chorus praefectus' in
the private chapel of Philip II of Spain, the husband of the Queen, Mary
Tudor. In September 1555 he left England and went to Italy again; in
1567 he was in Rome. On 1 May 1568, he became Imperial Court
Kapellmeister to the Emperor Maximilian II in Vienna; he held this
position until his death, which occurred while the court was at Prague
during the summer of 1603. In 1572 he was appointed treasurer of Cambrai
Cathedral, and in 1577, also a canon (residence was not required for
either position there). He was greatly esteemed as a composer, numbering
among his works some 1,000 madrigals, about 40 masses (mostly in cantus
firmus, paraphrase and parody masses), and many other works of sacred
music. He was an important representative of the last generation of
great Flemish composers of the Renaissance, and was one of the major
composers of Italian madrigals.
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