Matthias Werrecore

Hermann Matthias Werrecore (c. 1500 in village of Warcoing, Pecq – after 1574) was a Flemish composer in Italy.[1] He was maestro di cappella of Milan Cathedral from 1522 to 1550[2] where he was in charge of eleven adult singers and seven choirboys.[3]

Works

His best known work is La Bataglia Taliana for four voices, originally published with the German title Die Schlacht vor Pavia (1544), reissued as La Bataglia Taliana con alcune villotte piacevole (Venezia, Gardane, 1549).[4][5][6] A battaglia in memory of the Battle of Pavia 1525. The villotte include Andand' a spasso.[7]

His surviving sacred compositions consist of his Cantuum quinque vocum (quos motetta vocant) Hermanni Matthiae Werrecorensis musici excelentissimi, liber primus (1559)[8] dedicated to Antonius Marinus Pansanus,[9] as well as a few other works found in collections and manuscripts.

Recordings

  • La Bataglia taliana in collection War And Faith - composers Giovanni Gabrieli, Andrea Gabrieli, Clément Janequin, Giorgio Mainerio. La Fenice, Daltrocantro, Il Terzo Suono, Gianpaolo Fagotto. Arts Music 2004
  • La Bataglia taliana on collection La Pellegrina - composers Giovanni de Bardi, Cristofano Malvezzi, Emilio de Cavalieri, Jacopo Peri Huelgas Ensemble director Paul Van Nevel, Sony Classical Vivarte 1998

References

  1. ^ Studi di storia dell'arte in onore di Maria Luisa Gatti Perer - Page 253 Maria Luisa Gatti Perer, Marco Rossi, Alessandro Rovetta - 1999 -".. e C. GETZ, Hermann Matthias Werrecore and the North Italian Circle of Liberal Humanists in Counter-Reformation Italy, «Arte Lombarda», 118(1996), 3, pp. 15-25
  2. ^ Christine Suzanne Getz - Music In The Collective Experience In Sixteenth-Century Milan Page 81 2005 "Hermann Matthias Werrecore, 1522-1550 Following the death of Gaffurius on 25 June 1522, the Flemish composer Hermann Matthias Werrecore was appointed maestro di cappella. Aside from the fact that he was residing in the city, nothing ..."
  3. ^ Frank A. D'Accone - The Civic Muse: Music and Musicians in Siena During the Middle ... Page 310 1997 "In 1522, when the Flemish composer Hermann Matthias Werrecore assumed the maestro di cappellas post in Milan, the group comprised eleven adult singers and seven boys. Their numbers fluctuated between eleven and fourteen adults and ..."
  4. ^ John Dowland - Page 138 Diana Poulton - 1982 "These were 'La Guerre' or 'La Bataille' by Jannequin, written to commemorate the Battle of Marignano in 1515, first printed in 1529, and 'Die Schlacht vor Pavia' or 'La Battaglia Taliana' by Matthias Werrecore, first printed in 1544"
  5. ^ Comedy in Music: A Historical Bibliographical Resource Guide - Page 25 Enrique Alberto Arias - 2001 "Matthias Werrecore's Battaglia taliana (W98) vividly imitates the sounds of horses running and cannons firing."
  6. ^ Music and Ceremony at the Court of Charles V: The Capilla Flamenca ... - Page 174 Mary Tiffany Ferer - 2012 32 Pier Paolo Scattolin, 'Werrecore, Matthias Hermann', NG2. Ignace Bossuyt, 'Introduction', in Mathias Werrecore, La Bataglia Taliana, facsimile edition (Peer, 1987), pp. 5–13, at pp. 9, 12, suggests that Werrecore's work may have been ...
  7. ^ Andand' a spasso pdf
  8. ^ Music Publications - Page 3 A-R Editions, Inc. "Hermann Matthias Werrecore: Cantuum quinque vocum quos motetta vocant . . . liber primus (1559) Edited by Christine ... (2008) $108.00 Hermann Matthias Werrecore served as the maestro di cappella at the Duomo of Milan from 1522 until ..."
  9. ^ Cui Dono Lepidum Novum Libellum?: Dedicating Latin Works and ... - Page 75 Ignace Bossuyt, Academia Belgica (Rome, Italy) - 2008 "Matthias Werrecore for example, declares that, when people will see that the dedicatee Antonius Marinus Pansanus often enjoys this music to take his mind off various worries, they too will take these partbooks in hand."