Giovanni Rovetta
Giovanni Rovetta (c. 1595/97–1668) was an Italian Baroque composer and maestro di capella of the Capella Marciana at St Mark's Basilica, Venice between Monteverdi and Cavalli. He may have been a choirboy at St.
Giovanni Rovetta
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- Born
- 1596 · Venice.
- Died
- 1668 · Venice.
- Nationality
- Republic of Venice
- Occupation
- presbyter · composer
- Fields
- opera
- Movements
- Baroque music
- Teachers
- Claudio Monteverdi
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Giovanni Rovetta (c. 1595/97–1668) was an Italian Baroque composer and maestro di capella of the Capella Marciana at St Mark's Basilica, Venice between Monteverdi and Cavalli. He may have been a choirboy at St.
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Born at Venice in 1596, died in Venice in 1668.
Training under Claudio Monteverdi is recorded. Giovanni Legrenzi is recorded as having studied under Giovanni Rovetta. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Positions recorded include chapelmaster. Work by Giovanni Rovetta is recorded in the collections of Procuratoria di San Marco musical archive.
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Title page of G. B. Rovetta's Manipulus et messe musicus (Anvers: heirs of Pierre II Phalèse, 1648).
Giovanni Battista Rovetta · Manipulus et messe musicus (Anvers: heirs of Pierre II Phalèse, 1648).
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