Felice Anerio
Felice Anerio (c. 1560 – 26 or 27 September 1614) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, and a member of the Roman School of composers. He was the older brother of another important, and somewhat more progressive composer of the same period, Giovanni Francesco Anerio.
Life
Anerio was born in Rome and lived his entire life there. He sang as a boy soprano at the Julian Chapel (the Cappella Giulia) from 1568 until 1577 (by which time he was an alto), and then he sang at another church until 1580. Around this time he began to compose, especially madrigals; this was one of the few periods in his life during which he wrote secular music. Likely he was influenced by Luca Marenzio, who was hugely popular at the time and who was in Rome at the same time Anerio began composing. By 1584 Anerio had been appointed maestro di cappella at the Collegio degli Inglesi; he also seems to have been the choirmaster at another society of Rome's leading musicians called the vertuosa Compagnia de i Musici di Roma. These positions must have given him considerable opportunity to exercise his compositional talents, for he had already written the music, songs, madrigals and choruses, for an Italian Passion play by this time. In 1594, he replaced Palestrina as the official composer to the papal choir, which was the most prominent position in Rome for a composer.
Podcasts:
Felice Anerio
ALBUMS
Giovanni Francesco Anerio: Requiem / Felice Anerio: Six Motets
Released 2006- Missa Pro defunctis: Introitus (Requiem aeternam)
- Missa Pro defunctis: Kyrie
- Missa Pro defunctis: Sequentia (Dies irae)
- Missa Pro defunctis: Offertorium (Domine Iesu Christe)
- Missa Pro defunctis: Sanctus
- Missa Pro defunctis: Agnus Dei I, II, III
- Missa Pro defunctis: Communio (Lux aeterna)
- Missa Pro defunctis: Responsorium (Libera me)
- Missa Pro defunctis: Kyrie in absolutione
- Vidi speciosam
- Ad te levavi
- Christe redemptor omnium
- Salve regina II
- Christus factus est
- Magnificat Quinti toni
Died: 1614-09-26
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by New Year
Folios
by: New YearI'm heading straight where I never go
There's no more hiding in these folios
Each page has known what the first one showed
There're still three more hours of sunlight
And in this dream of a cottage on a hill
There was no view of the life that makes it real
Here in May and only the trees
Want to leave like I do
I don't think the good years I've got can wait