Bartolomeo Tromboncino
(b.in or nr Verona, c.1470; d. in or nr Venice, c.1535).
Italian composer. He spent most of his life in the Marquis of Mantua's service, though his career there was stormy (in 1499 he killed his wife after finding her with her lover). He was in Ferrara (1502-8), in Lucrezia Borgia's service, and may have stayed there until 1521, when he was living in Venice. One of the most prolific and gifted frottola composers in the early 16th century, he wrote over 170 in various forms. By 1507 he was setting serious, madrigalian texts, an innovatory step, but his importance waned in later years. His textures tend towards non-imitative polyphony rather than the simple homorhythmic style of many frottolas. His extant sacred works - a motet, a setting of the Lamentations and 17 laude - are basically homorhythmic with contrasting sections of non-imitative polyphony.
Italian composer. He spent most of his life in the Marquis of Mantua's service, though his career there was stormy (in 1499 he killed his wife after finding her with her lover). He was in Ferrara (1502-8), in Lucrezia Borgia's service, and may have stayed there until 1521, when he was living in Venice. One of the most prolific and gifted frottola composers in the early 16th century, he wrote over 170 in various forms. By 1507 he was setting serious, madrigalian texts, an innovatory step, but his importance waned in later years. His textures tend towards non-imitative polyphony rather than the simple homorhythmic style of many frottolas. His extant sacred works - a motet, a setting of the Lamentations and 17 laude - are basically homorhythmic with contrasting sections of non-imitative polyphony.
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