Costanzo Festa

"Festa" redirects here. You may be looking for Sebastiano Festa. See also the disambiguation page for Festa.

Life

Born: c.1490

Died: 10 April 1545

Biography Costanzo Festa was among the pioneering Italian composers of the ‘new’ polyphonic style of the High Renaissance, and also one of the early madrigalists. From 1517, he served in the Papal Choir in Rome, at which time he was one of very few Italians in a choir dominated by Northern European singers. He remained associated with the Sistine Chapel choir until his death in 1545. His sacred output includes four masses and more than forty motets.

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List of choral works

Secular music Afflitti spirti miei Ah che vuoi più cruciar m'amor Altro non è'l mi'amor I Un baciar furioso Bramo morir Ingiustissimo Amor Lieto non hebbi Ma donna, io v'am' e taccio Madonna, io mi consumo Madonna, ohimè, per qual cagion Non s'incolpa Ogni beltà, madonna Quando ritrovo la mia pastorella Quel dolce foco Quis dabit oculis Se mai vedet'amanti Si come sete bella Si come seti bella Tanta beltad'è in voi Venite amanti

Sacred music Altro non è'l mi'amor II Angelus ad pastores ait Ave nobilissima creatura Ave regina Congratulamini mihi Da pacem Domine Ecce iste venit Factus est repente In illo tempore postquam impleti sunt dies purgationis Jerusalem quae occidis prophetas Missa Et in terra pax Nunc dimittis Quam pulchra es Qui condolens interitu Regem archangelorum Regem regum Dominum Regina caeli laetare Sancta Maria succurre miseris Surge amica mea Tribus miraculis Tu lumen, tu splendor

 
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Publications

• Madrigale de M. Constantio Festa Libro Primo (Venice?, 1538)
• Il primo libro de madrigali a tre voci (Venice, 1541) – contains only one work by Festa
• Il vero libro de madrigali a tre voci (Venice, 1543)
• Florentia tempus est (from I-TVd 36)

External links

• Works by Costanzo Festa in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)