Gierolamo Lambardi
Life
Born: before 1586
Died: after 1623
Biography
Italian Priest and Composer active between 1586 and 1623 (these dates actually are the printing years of the earliest and last known prints of his music). The place and date of birth of Girolamo Lambardi are unknown as are most of the details of his life. Almost all the information comes either from frontispieces to prints or manuscripts containing his music and from a dedication to him in a print containing music of another composer.
According to the frontispieces of several printed and manuscript collections of his music, Girolamo Lambardi was a Regular Canon of the Congregationis Sancti Spiritus of Venice and it seems probable that he spent most of his adult life in this position.
A dedicatory foreword in a collection of Magnificat settings by Giovanni Croce printed in 1605 shows that Lambardi at least in that year was the General of that order. Croce in this dedication also states that Lambardi in his youth had been a Student of Gioseffo Zarlino. This together with Lambardi's friendship with Croce has led to speculations that Gierolamo Lambardi could have been a native of Chioggia as were both Croce and Zarlino. but there is, so far, no other evidence supporting this.
R. Eitner States in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Quellen - Lexikon der Musiker und Musikgelehrten bd.6. 1902. pag. 22. that there also is a mention in an Italian manuscriptcollection of Lanbardis music in Kgl. Bibl. zu Berlin that Lambardi had been a student of G. Palestrina. In Catalogo della biblioteca del Liceo musicale di Bologna: compilato da Gaetano Gaspari, compiuto e pubblicato da Federico Parisini per cura del municipio, Biblioteca musicale "G.B. Martini" di Bologna, Gaetano Gaspari Libreria Romagnoli dall'Acqua, 1892 pag. 247 also states similar evidence in Italian manuscripts where Lambardi is mentioned as a pupil of Palestrina.
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List of choral works
Other works not listed above (See Template:CheckMissing for possible reasons and solutions)
- Ante luciferum genitus
- Apertis thesauris suis
- Beata es Maria quae credidisti
- Beatus Vir (Ps. 111) Tertii toni
- Canite tuba in Sion
- Completi sunt dies Mariae
- Dabo in Sion salutem
- Dominus veniet occurite illi dicentes
- Dum ortus fuerit
- Ecce Dominus noster
- Ecce Dominus veniet
- Ecce apparebit Dominus
- Ecce in nubibus caeli
- Ecce veniet Propheta magnus
- Ecce veniet desideratus cunctus gentibus
- Erunt prava in directa
- In illa die
- Jerusalem, Gaude Gaudio magno
- Jucundare filia Sion
- Juste et pie vivámus
- Laudate, pueri, Dominum (Ps. 112), Octavi toni.
- Levate capita vestra
- Magi videntes stellam
- Magnificat sexti toni
- Magnificatus est
- Montes et colles
- Montes et omnes colles
- Mária et flúmina benedícite Dómino
- Ne timeas Maria
- O Adonai, et dux Domus Israel
- O Clavis David
- O Emanuel Rex
- O Oriens et splendor lucis eterne
- O Rex gentium
- O Sapientia que ex ore altissimi
- O radix Jesse
- Omnes sitientes venite
- Omnipotens Sermo tuus, Domine
- Rex pacificus
- Scitote quia prope est regnum Dei
- Stella ista
- Tu es, qui ventúrus es
- Urbs fortitudinis nostre Syon
- Veniet Dominus, et non tardabit
- Venit lumen tuum
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Publications
- Sacra cantica B. Mariae Virginus 4v., 1586
- Psalmi ad tertiam, una cum Missa 8v., 1594
- Antiphonarium vespertinum dierum festorum totius anni, 2 Tle., 1597
- Antiphonae omnes juxta ritum romani brevarii, ebd. 1600
- Missae 4v., 1601
- Psalmodia vespertina omnium solemnitatum 8v., lib. 2, 1605
- Vespertina omnium solemnitatum 6v., 1612
- Vespertina omnium solemnitatum totius anni psalmodia […] cum duobus canticis Beatae Mariae Virginis 3 und 5v., 1613
- Psalmodia ad Vespertinas 5v., 1613
- Contrapunta in introitus missarum 4v., 1617
- Vespertina omnium Psalmodia 3v., 1623
External links
- Works by Gierolamo Lambardi in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)