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Encyclopedia Britannica



ANERIO

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 4 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ANC-APO
ANERIO , the name of two
brothers
 , musical composers, very
great
  Roman masters of 16th-
century
  polyphony. Felice, the elder, was born about 156o, studied under G. M. Nanino and succeeded Palestrina in 1594 as composer to the papal chapel. Several masses and motets of his are printed in Proske's Musica Divina and other
modern
  anthologies, and it is hardly too much to say that they are for the most
part
  worthy of Palestrina himself. The date of his death is conjecturally given as 1630. His brother, Giovanni Francesco, was born about 1567, and seems to have died about 162o. The occasional attribution of some of his numerous compositions to his elder brother is a pardonable
mistake
 , if we may judge by the works that have been reprinted. But the statement, which continues to be repeated in standard works of reference, that " he was one of the first of Italians to use the quaver and its subdivisions " is incomprehensible. Quavers were common property in all musical countries quite early in the 16th
century
 , and' semiquavers appear in a madrigal of Palestrina published in 1574. The two
brothers
  are probably the latest composers who handled 16th-century music as their
mother
 -language; suffering neither from the temotation
to indulge even in such mild neologisms as they might have learnt from the elder brother's master, Nanino, nor from the necessity of preserving their purity of style by a mortified negative asceticism. They wrote pure polyphony because they understood it and loved it, and hence their
work
  lives, as neither the progressive
work
  of their own day nor the reactionary work of their imitators could live. The I2-
part
  Stabat Mater in the seventh volume of Palestrina's complete works has been by some authorities ascribed to Felice Anerio.


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