Aquilino Coppini
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Life
Born: ?, Milan
Died: 1629
Biography
Aquilino Coppini was a musicist who, at the service of Cardinal Federico Borromeo, especialized in creating sacred contrafacta of secular madrigals. His contrafacta are of interest for their concentration on madrigals by Monteverdi (especially the third, fourth and fifth books) and for his treatment of the poetic text. Rather than simply replacing the original text with a liturgical one, he ‘spiritualized’ then through a careful translation which reproduces the phonemes, accents and rhythms of the secular text.
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Settings of his literary works
- Deus, Deus noster / Filli cara (Ruggiero Giovannelli)
- Dulce est / Occhi miei (Ruggiero Giovannelli)
- Longe mi Jesu (Claudio Monteverdi)
- Moritur in ligno / Morirò di dolor (Ruggiero Giovannelli)
- O Jesu mea vita (Claudio Monteverdi)
- O quam inanes / O come vaneggiate (Ruggiero Giovannelli)
- O stellae coruscantes (Claudio Monteverdi)
- Qui laudes tuas cantat (Claudio Monteverdi)
- Rutilante in nocte (Claudio Monteverdi)
- Sanctissima Maria / Baciatemi (Ruggiero Giovannelli)
- Suauissimi Jesu / Soauissimo fiori (Ruggiero Giovannelli)
Publications
- Musica tolta da i Madrigali di Claudio Monteverde, e d'altri autori … e fatta spirituale, 5–6vv, Milan, 1607, 1608 (lost), 1609.
