Fabrizio Dentice
Fabrizio Dentice (also Fabricio, Fabritio) (1539 in Naples – 24 February 1581 in Naples) was an Italian composer and virtuoso lute and viol player.
Fabrizio Dentice
- Born
- 1530 · Naples.
- Died
- 1581 · Naples.
- Occupation
- composer · viol player · lutenist
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Fabrizio Dentice (also Fabricio, Fabritio) (1539 in Naples – 24 February 1581 in Naples) was an Italian composer and virtuoso lute and viol player.
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Biography
Fabrizio was born into the noble Dentice family. He was the son of Luigi Dentice (1510–1566) who served the powerful Sanseverino family and had a great reputation as a singer and lutenist. Fabrizio was also uncle to the harpsichordist Scipione Dentice (1560–1633).
Musical editions
• Dinko Fabris. Da Napoli a Parma: itinerari d'un musicista aristocratico. Opera vocali di Fabrizio Dentice, 15630ca-1580. Rome and Milan: Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, 1998. • Dinko Fabris and John Griffiths (eds). Neapolitan Lute Music: Fabrizio Dentice, Giulio Severino, Giovanni Antonio Severino, Francesco Cardone. Recent Researches in Music of the Renaissance 140. Madison: A-R Editions, 2004. (includes all Dentice's known lute music including doubtful ascriptions)
Selected discography
Vocal works: • De Lamentatione Hieremiae on Italia Mia, Musical Imagination of the Renaissance. Huelgas Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel, Philippe Verdelot, et al. Sony 1992. • Miserere. on Emilio de Cavalieri Lamentations. Le Poème Harmonique dir. Vincent Dumestre, Alpha 2002 • Versetti del Miserere, in falsibordoni del Dentice passeggiati da Donatello Coya eunuco della Real Capella (1622) [6'54"] on Magnificat anima mea. Il Culto Mariano e l'Oratorio Filippino nella Napoli del'600. Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini Symphonia 1996 Instrumental: • 2 lute pieces, (with songs by father Luigi Dentice - Come t'haggio lassata, o via mia? Chi me l'havesse dett', o via mia?) on Napolitane - villanelle, arie & moresche (1530-70). Ensemble Micrologus, Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini dir. Florio, Opus111 1999 • The Siena Lute Book Jacob Heringman Avie-AV0036 2004
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- 1.Rome. Bibliothèque de l'Académie des Lyncéens e Corsiniana, RM0418 Musica M 14.
- 2.Rome, Bibliothèque nationale centrale de Rome, MSS-Musicali 77-88.
- 3.Rome, Bibliothèque Casanatense, 2567.
- 4.Rome, Bibliothèque nationale centrale de Rome, MSS-Musicali 127-128.
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- Dinko Fabris. Da Napoli a Parma: itinerari di un musicista aristocratico : opere vocali di Fabrizio Dentice, 1530 ca-1581. Skira. 1998.
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