Vincenzo Ruffo

Perhaps one of the most versatile and influential Italian-born composers from the mid-sixteenth hundred years, Vincenzo Ruffo was created in Verona and embarked upon a music career young. His earliest recognised schooling occurred at Verona Cathedral’s Scuola degli Accolti, where he offered being a choirboy and presumably also discovered the rudiments of polyphonic structure. He got priestly purchases in 1531, and presumably offered minimal musical positions until his 1st documented major work, that of maestro di cappella for the Cathedral of Savona in 1542. Regrettably, the vagaries of battle pressured Ruffo into an early on retirement out of this post, as the Genoese military destroyed that chapel in 1543. Ruffo quickly required a fresh post using the Governor of Milan, and upon the loss of life of that specific in 1546 came back to Verona. In the first 1550s, Ruffo been successful to both most significant musical articles in Verona: grasp of music for the city’s renowned Accademia Filarmonica and grasp from the chapel for Verona Cathedral. It appears that a lot of Ruffo’s prolific secular music (specifically his contributions towards the Italian madrigal) times from his support towards the Accademia. The entire year 1563 is normally referred to as a “turning stage” in Ruffo’s existence. In that 12 months, he came back to Milan to consider the work of chapelmaster at Milan Cathedral. In Milan, he produced the acquaintance from the passionate and important Cardinal Carlo Borromeo, among the traveling causes in the Catholic Reformation with regards to chapel music. Borromeo famously carried out a “check” in Rome of the power of Catholic composers to create music where the sacred terms could be comprehended. Ruffo apparently required Borromeo’s appearance to heart, as well as the sacred music that dominated his compositional existence after 1563 will follow the design. Oddly, Ruffo’s last days appear to move into professional obscurity. After retiring from your prominent post in Milan in 1572, Ruffo offered small chapels from the Cathedral of Pistoia and Sacile in Friuli. He passed away there in 1587 and was buried beneath a headstone proclaiming the man’s intense old age.