O com'è gran martire (Giovanni Gastoldi)
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- Editor: Gerhard Weydt (submitted 2020-05-31). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 87 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: O com'è gran martire
Composer: Giovanni Gastoldi
Lyricist: Giovanni Battista Guarini
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1588 in Il primo libro de madrigali a 5 voci
2nd published: 1590 in Gemmae musicalis Liber Tertius, no. 43
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Original text and translations
Italian text O com’è gran martire, Cavaliere Guerini = Giovanni Battista Guarini |
German translation O, welch große Marter ist es,
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The text, apart from the first few words, differs entirely from the madrigal published by Guarini in his Rime (1598) and set to music by Monteverdi, Gesualdo ..., but the author “Cavaliere Guerini” in “Rime di diuersi celebri poete dell‘ età nostra”, Bergamo 1587 (Google Books) is in fact Guarini, as many other poems by Guerini in this publication are identical to those in Guarini’s Rime.