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