Simone Balsamino

Quick Facts

Intro

Italian composer

Places

Italy

Musician Composer

Work field

Music

Gender

Male

The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Simone Balsamino (fl. 1590s in Venice) was an Italian composer, poet and dramatist. He was the first to set texts from Tasso's Aminta as Aminta musicale. He is also credited with the invention of the bass cittern.

Works, editions and recordings

Perla a tragicomedia in music dedicated to the marchese De La Rovere. Venice 1596.
Le novellette a sei voci ed. Chegai, Andrea Le novelette a sei voci di Simone Balsamino. Prime musiche di „Aminta " di Torquato Tasso, Firenze: Olschki 1993 (Historiae Musicae Cultores Biblioteca 69)
Balsamino & Monteverdi: Novellette e Madrigali - dir. Diego Fasolis, Vanitas Ensemble, and Guido Morini (Audio CD - 2002)

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