Fillippo Azzaiolo

Unfortunately, next to nothing is well known about the life span of Bolognese lutenist Fillippo Azzaiolo apart from the actual fact that he was from Bologna. Many biographers claim that he will need to have sung in another of Bologna’s many churches, the main method for a sixteenth hundred years musician to make a living in European countries. No documents of his existence or church assistance, however, has however been uncovered by historians poring on the archives. The very best guesses of his profession note the time between 1557 and 1569 as his many active years. It might be the situation, aswell, that Azzaiolo experienced an understated character, which would complicate issues. He released three selections of music in his life time, but the 1st two were totally anonymous initially! Just in the preface to the 3rd did Azzaiolo state his credited respect for the music in the 1st two volumes. Possibly the just various other biographical tidbit making it through is an accounts of 1 of his parts being played in the primary square of Bologna with a music group of cornettos, sackbuts, and cornamuses — certainly a tribute to his regional popularity. His reputation can be evidenced with the incredibly wide circulation a few of his parts achieved. Internationally well-known music artists from Philippe Verdelot to Frescobaldi organized his music and performed it. One piece specifically — his villotta Chi passa per ‘sta strada — got a location in the worldwide “strike parade” from the sixteenth hundred years. Believe it or not a musician than Orlande de Lassus performed it to get a Bavarian state wedding ceremony: Lassus sang Azzaiolo’s tune and added his very own lute accompaniment. William Byrd in Britain also created a keyboard agreement of the easy, dancelike piece. Byrd’s edition was already well-known in his very own time, and it seems in Elizabethan literary sources.