Giovanni Ghizzolo


Giovanni Ghizzolo was a Franciscan friar, composer of motets and madrigals. From 1613 he was maestro di cappella successively at Correggio, Ravenna, Padua, and ended his life in Novara.
He published eleven prints of sacred music, both in concertato and "a cappella" style, and nine of secular music - three books of polyphonic madrigals for 5 and 6 voices and six of madrigals, arias and canzonette for 1-2-3 voices from 1608 till 1623. Some of his sacred music collections have been reprinted several times, until 1640.
His Gioco della cieca, contained in Book 1 of Madrigals, takes 123 verses from Il pastor fido of Giovanni Battista Guarini, also set by Gastoldi and others, to make a theatrical madrigal-drama.

Editions

  • Madrigali et arie per sonare et cantare: libro primo ed. Judith Cohen
  • Secondo libro de madrigali, Venice

Recordings

  • Benedicite Deum caeli. Jubilemus et laetemur omnes. on Fabellae Sacrae. Savadi. 2008
  • Second Book of Madrigals. Roberto Balconi, Fantazyas. Brilliant Classics