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Giaches de Wert
1535 - 1596
Belgium / The Netherlands
| G. de Wert |
Giaches de Wert (1535 - 06/05/1596), a Flemish composer who was born in Weert/Wert near Antwerp and died in Mantua 1596. From an early stage de Wert lived in Italy and served in Avellino (near Napoli), Parma, Milano, Ferrara and Mantua. He published 13 volumes of madrigals. De Wert is certainly considered the link between Cypriano de Rore and Claudio Monteverdi. In 1565 he was appointed Maestro di Cappella Santa Barbara the Gonzaga in Mantua where in 1590 Monteverdi joined the Cappella. De Wert was the last Flemish composer who played on the highest level a leading musical role in Italy.
| Author: | Wim Goossens |
Missa Defunctorum
| Period: | High Renaissance |
| Musical form: | mass |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
Missa Defunctorum for four voices.
| Source: | Robert Chase, Dies Irae: A Guide to Requiem Music, Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2003 |
Adesto dolori meo
| Period: | High Renaissance |
| Composed in: | 1566c |
| Musical form: | motet à 6 |
| Text/libretto: | Latin |
| Duration: | 3'56'' |
| Label(s): | KRT 32001 |
| Accent 20021 | |
| ACT 9291 | |
| DTR 2014 |
A motet from the Responsorium de Officium defunctorum composed for six voices (SSA/TTTB). The Adesto dolori meo is an old Responsorium. There are about 138 Responsoria de Officium defunctorum known and used during centuries in the Office of the Dead. They are all well ordered. This setting by De Wert was published in Motectorum quinque Vocum, Liber Primus (1566).
De Wert uses from the beginning a very sophisticated contrapuntal polyphonic style, with some repeating chromatic lines in all voices in the first 14 bars. To make differences and to bring accent and contrast in following the text De Wert uses by the wording "Et cantatio mea," "my singing" ( bars 39 – 44) quicker and shorter notes compared to "in plorationem," "into weeping" (bars 44 -52) which is set in very long notes. Those phrases will be repeated and at the end is a descending line in the Cantus/Superior.
Responsorium nr 3:
Adesto dolori meo, O Deus, nimium fatigor,
et cecidit in luctum Cythara mea,
et cantatio mea in plorationem.
(I am consumed with my grief, O God,
I am too much tormented;
My harp has fallen into mourning,
My singing into weeping.)
De Wert uses from the beginning a very sophisticated contrapuntal polyphonic style, with some repeating chromatic lines in all voices in the first 14 bars. To make differences and to bring accent and contrast in following the text De Wert uses by the wording "Et cantatio mea," "my singing" ( bars 39 – 44) quicker and shorter notes compared to "in plorationem," "into weeping" (bars 44 -52) which is set in very long notes. Those phrases will be repeated and at the end is a descending line in the Cantus/Superior.
Responsorium nr 3:
Adesto dolori meo, O Deus, nimium fatigor,
et cecidit in luctum Cythara mea,
et cantatio mea in plorationem.
(I am consumed with my grief, O God,
I am too much tormented;
My harp has fallen into mourning,
My singing into weeping.)
| Author: | Wim Goossens |
Peccavi super numerum
| Period: | High Renaissance |
| Composed in: | 1581c |
| Musical form: | motet |
| Text/libretto: | Latin |
| Duration: | 6'22'' |
| Label(s): | CBS records MVCD 1121 |
| GDCD 022 | |
| Accent Records B000025T2G/ 1999 |
A motet with text from the Responsorium de Officium Defunctorum for six voices, divided into SSAATB. This setting was published in Modulationem cum sex vocibus, Liber primus (1581).
| Author: | Wim Goossens |