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ANIMUCCIA, GIOVANNI

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 55 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ANC-APO
ANIMUCCIA, GIOVANNI , Italian musical composer, was born at Florence in the last years of the 15th century. At the request of St Filippo
Neri
  he composed a number of Laudi, or hymns of praise, to be sung after sermon time, which have given him an accidental prominence in musical history, since their per-formance in St Filippo's Oratory eventually gave rise (on the disruption of 16th century schools of composition) to those early forms of "oratorio " that are not traceable to the Gregorian-polyphonic " Passions." St Filippo admired Animuccia so warmly that he declared he had seen the soul of his friend fly upwards towards heaven. In 1555 Animuccia was appointed maestro di
capella
  at St Peter's, an office which he held until his death in 1571. He was succeeded by Palestrina, who had been his friend and probably his pupil. The
manuscript
  of many of Animuccia's compositions is still preserved in the Vatican Library. His
chief
  published works were Madrigals e Motetti a quattro e cinque voci (Ven. 1548) and Il primo Libro di Messe (Rom. 1567). From the latter Padre
Martini
  has taken two specimens for his Saggio di Contrapunto. A
mass
  from the Primo Libro di Messe on the
canto
  fermo of the hymn Conditor
alme
  siderunt is published in modern notation in the Anthologie des maitres religieux primitifs of the Chanteurs de Saint Gervais. It is solemn and noble in conception, and would be a
great
 
work
  but for a roughness which is more careless than archaic.


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