Francesco Soriano

Aliases: Francesco Suriano; Franciscus Sorianus

Life

Born: c.1548-9

Died: 19 July 1621

Biography Soriano was a choirboy at St. John Lateran's Basilica under Palestrina, whose Missa Papae Marcelli he later arranged for double choir. After serving the court of Mantua (1581-1586) he returned to Rome, becoming director at St. John's in 1603 where, from 1608, he worked with the organist Girolamo Frescobaldi. With Felice Anerio he edited the Editio medicaea or Medician Graduale of 1614, said to be a continuation of Palestrina's 1577 project to revise the Gregorian chant.

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List of choral works

Magnificats Magnificat 1 (primi toni) Magnificat 2 (secundi toni) Magnificat 3 (tertii toni) Magnificat 4 (quarti toni) Magnificat 5 (quinti toni) Magnificat 6 (sexti toni) Magnificat 7 (septimi toni) Magnificat 8 (octavi toni)

Hymns Ave maris stella Canon all'unisono a mezza pausa sopra Ave maris stella Votive antiphons Alma Redemptoris Ave Regina caelorum Regina caeli Salve Regina Salve Regina II

Motets

Adorna thalamum a 8 Filiae Jerusalem nolite In illo tempore assumpsit Jesus Petrum Motetula de Passione Nihil tibi Pater mi

Pater, dimitte Pater, si vis Quid dormitis? Tristis est Tulit Elias a 12

Other sacred works

• Alta Armonia gentile
• Missa in Papae Marcelli
• O gloriosa donna
• Passio secundum Mathaeum
• Uscio del Ciel

Secular works

• Ameni colli
• Lasso dunque che fia
• Mestissimi concenti
• Ninfa la falsa mano
• Oscura notte
• Quivi sospiri pianti ed alti guai
• Vedo ogni selva

 
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Publications

• Il primo libro di madrigali, 5vv (Venice, 1581)
• Il secondo libro di madrigali, 5vv (Rome, 1592)
• Motectorum, 8vv (Rome, 1597)
• Il primo libro di madrigali, 4–6vv (Rome, 1601)
• Il secondo libro di madrigali, 4–6vv (1602? lost)
• Missarum liber primus, 4–6, 8vv (Rome, 1609) [incl. arr. Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli]; ed. K. Proske, Selectus novus missarum, (Regensburg, 1857, 1861)
• Canoni et oblighi di 110 sorte, sopra l'Ave maris stella, 3–8vv (Rome, 1610)
• Psalmi et motecta, 8, 12, 16vv (Venice, 1616)
• Passio D.N. Jesu Christe secundum quatuor Evangelistas, Magnificat, sequentia fidelium defunctorum, una cum responsorio, 4vv (Rome, 1619) 12 pieces ed. in Musica divina iii (Regensburg, 1859, 1863)

External links

Works by Francesco Soriano in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)