Rinaldo del Mel

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Aliases: René del Mel; René del Melle; Renatus del Melle; Rinalde del Melle – Not to be confused with Giovanni Battista Mele (Juan Bauptista Melle), 1701 (or earlier) - active until 1752 in Madrid.

Life

Born: c1554

Died: c1598

Biography

Born in Mechelen, Melle is presumed to have been 8 years old when he joined the choir of St. Rombaut in 1562. He later claimed to have been named after the infant duchess Renée of Lorraine, adopting a more italianate name when he moved to Rome in 1580. He disappears from the record in 1596, though a few madrigals were published under his name in Antwerp in 1597.

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List of choral works

Secular music

Madrigals

Other secular music

Sacred music

Other works not listed above (See Template:CheckMissing for possible reasons and solutions)


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Publications

Sacred

  • Liber primus mottetorum (Venice, 1581)
  • Liber tertius motectorum (Venice, 1585)
  • Sacrae cantiones (Antwerp, 1588)
  • Liber quintus motectorum (Venice, 1595)

Secular

  • Madrigali a quattro, cinque et sei voci (Venice, 1583)
  • Il primo libro de madrigali a sei voci (Venice, 1584)
  • Il primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, 1584)
  • Il primo libro di madrigali a cinque et sei voci (Venice, 1585)
  • Il secondo libro delli madrigaletti a tre voci (Venice, 1586)
  • Il terzo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, 1587)
  • Madrigali a 6 (Antwerp, 1588)
  • Il secondo libro de madrigali a sei voci (Venice, 1593)
  • Il primo libro de madrigaletti a tre voci (Venice, 1593) – reprint, first edition has been lost
  • Il quinto libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, 1594)
  • Il terzo libro delli madrigaletti a tre voci (Venice, 1594)
  • Il terzo libro delli madrigali a sei voci (Venice, 1595)

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