September 3 - Adriano Banchieri (The Musical Birthday Series, 2nd Annual Cycle)

Adriano Banchieri (3 September 1568 – Bologna, 1634) was a composer, theorist, and organist.

[For last year's tributes to Dorothy Maynor and Thurston Dart click here.]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Re-Sourcing

"Formerly, madrigal comedy was considered to be one of the important precursors to opera, but most music scholars now see it as a separate development, part of a general interest in Italy at the time in creating musico-dramatic forms." - Wikipedia

We're now told be wary

Of claims that Banchieri

   Showed the way to the opera stage.

The whole category

Of singing a story

   Was part of the Geist of the age.

 

 

 

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