Open AccessFrom Milan to Graz: Milanese and Lombard Composers in the Parnassus Musicus Ferdinandaeus
Author(s) -
Marina Toffetti
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
de musica disserenda
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2536-2615
pISSN - 1854-3405
DOI - 10.3986/dmd13.1-2.03
Subject(s) - chapel , art , biography , literature , art history , classics
The Parnassus Musicus Ferdinandaeus includes 55 motets attributed to 32 composers and 2 anonymous motets. More than half of the motets are attributed to 18 composers of Lombard origins, including 11 composers active in Milan. Four composers (Arnone, Borgo, Comanedo and Pellegrini) were active at Milan Cathedral together with the editor of the collection, Giovanni Battista Bonometti, who then moved to the chapel of the Graz court. The other half of the motets of the collection is attributed to some of the musicians of Graz court chapel, who were in turn of Italian origins. The article examines the cultural relations between the duchy of Milan and the court of Graz, the biographical path of Bonometti and the characteristics of the Milanese motets