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Tomaso Cimello

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Name
  
Tomaso Cimello


Role
  
Poet

Died
  
1591, Monte San Giovanni Campano, Italy

Giovanni Tommaso Cimello (c. 1510 in Monte San Giovanni Campano – c. 1591 in Monte San Giovanni Campano) was a poet, musician, composer and musical theorist employed by the powerful Colonna family, and active at the Aragonese court in Naples.

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Works

  • Canzoni Villanesche al Modo Napolitano a 3 voci 1545 - this was one of the earliest collections of villanelle, following that by Nola (1541), and preceding those by Willaert (1545), and Donati (1550)
  • 1st Book of Madrigals for 4 voices 1548. The book was dedicated to Fabrizio Colonna.

    • Selected recordings

  • Villanelle on Napolitane. Tesori di Napoli Vol.7 Ensemble Micrologus, Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini. Opus111
  • Madrigal "fuggi'l sereno" on In morte de Madonna Laura. Huelgas Ensemble, dir. Paul Van Nevel.

    • References

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