Alessandro Orologio

Aliases: Alexander Horologius, Alexandro Horologio

Life

Born: c. 1550-55

Died: 1633?

Biography Orologio is documented as ‘trumpeter and musician’ at the court of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague just before 1580 and became vice-Kapellmeister there in 1603. He travelled extensively, visiting Dresden, Wolfenbüttel, Denmark and Cassel, where he met John Dowland. He was pensioned in Prague in 1613, and appears to have been active till 1633.

View the Wikipedia article on Alessandro Orologio.

List of choral works

• Amor per suo diletto
• Dammi la mano
• Dentro a un bagno
• Lucilla, io vuò morire
• Madonna mia gentile, prima che pass'aprile
• Miserere mei Deus a 5
• Occhi miei, che vedeste
• Sudden passions
• Tutta vezzosa
• Videns Christum in patibulo a 5

 
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Publications

• De floridi virtuosi d'Italia (Pierre Phalèse) 1600
• Promptuarium musicum, Pars Prima 1611

External links

• Works by Alessandro Orologio in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)