Costanzo Porta

From ChoralWiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Aliases: Costantino Porta

Life

Born: c. 1529, Cremona, Italy

Died: 19 May 1601, Padua, Italy

Biography
Contrapuntist, pupil of Willaert at Venice; maestro successively at Padua, Osimo, Ravenna and Loreto. Published 5 books of motets a 5-8 (1555-85); 1 of masses a 4-6 (1578); 2 books of Introits a 5 (1566, 1588); 4 of madrigals a 4-5 (1555-88); hymns a 4 (1602); vesper psalms and cantica a 8 (1605). Lamentations, madrigals, and a treatise on counterpoint, are in MS.

View the Wikipedia article on Costanzo Porta.

List of choral works

L E G E N D Disclaimer How to download
ICON SOURCE
File details.gif File details
Question.gif Help



Click here to search for this composer on CPDL

Publications

External links

add web links here