Domenico Mazzocchi

Domenico Mazzocchi (baptised 1592 in Civita Castellana – 21 January 1665 in Veja)^[a] was an Italian Baroque composer of vocal music, of the generation after Claudio Monteverdi.

He was a Roman lawyer, studied music with Giovanni Maria Nanino (or Nanini), also in Rome, and entered the service of cardinal Ippolito Aldobrandini in 1621.

He is associated with providing music for the popes, particularly Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII, until Mazzocchi's death in Rome on 21 January 1665.

His younger brother, Virgilio Mazzocchi, was a less notable composer and had a similar career as a Vatican music provider.

Works

Operas

• La catena d'Adone (1626)
• L'innocenza difesa

Other

Madrigali a 5 voci in partitura (1638)

• Madrigali a 5 voci in partitura (1638), madrigals which have Basso continuo, similar to the late Monteverdi; these contain the first notations, as explained in the preface, of the persisting conventional musical symbols < 'crescendo', > 'decrescendo', p(iano), f(orte) and tr(illo)
• Oratorio
  • David
  • Maddalena
• church music, notably motets

Notes

1. Veja is possibly an older name for present-day Vejano.

References

• Entry under Domenico Mazzocchi in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
• Entry under Mazzocchi, Domenico & Virgilio, in the Concise Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Composers.
• Cardinali A., 1926, Cenni biografici di Domenico e Virgilio Mazzocchi.

External links

• Free scores by Domenico Mazzocchi in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)