Andrea Bianchi

Life

Born: ca. 1590?

Died: fl. 1611-1626

Biography

Bianchi seems to have spent his life in the vicinity of Genoa; a 1626 Antwerp reprint calls him maestro di cappella of the cathedral at Chiavari. His 2 masses substitute elevation motets for the Benedictus (a practice common in France), and 1 motet has an Italian text.

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List of choral works

• Benedicite a 12
• Congratulamini mihi
• Congregati sunt inimici
• Cum pervenisset beatus Andreas
• Gaudeamus omnes
• Hodie Maria Virgo coelos ascendit
• Invocamus te
• Missa prima, vi toni (O sacrum convivium)
• Missa seconda, i toni (Adoramus te Christe)
• O Crux splendidior
• O Domine Jesu Christe

 
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Publications

• Motetti e messe a otto voci, libro primo 1611
• Vespertina omnium solemnitatem … 5vv, bc (org) (Venice, 1611)
• Psalmorum omnium solemnitatum, 5vv (Venice, 1611)
• Motetti, 1–4vv, bc … libro primo (Venice, 1612)
• Vespri (Loano, 1617), lost

External links

• Works by Andrea Bianchi in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)