Andrea Bianchi

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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

 
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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

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