Costanzo Porta
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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.
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