Giovanni Ghizzolo (Brescia ca. 1580Novara 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.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/
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.Oscar Mischiati, Bibliografia delle opere dei musicisti bresciani pubblicate a stampa dal 1497 al 1740. Firenze, Olschki, 1992/
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.
Editions Madrigali et arie per sonare et cantare: libro primo (1609) ed. Judith Cohen (2005) Secondo libro de madrigali, VeniceMadrigali et arie per sonare et cantare : Libro primo (1609), Libro secundo (1610), édité par Judith Cohen, Middleton, Wisconsin: A-R Editions, 2005. (Recent Researches in the Music in the Baroque Era, 138)
Recordings Benedicite Deum caeli. Jubilemus et laetemur omnes. on Fabellae Sacrae. Savadi. 2008 Second Book of Madrigals. Roberto Balconi, Fantazyas. Brilliant Classics
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