Aquilino Coppini

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

See complete list at Coppini edition (1607)

Settings of text by Aquilino Coppini

• Ahi come a un vago sol (Claudio Monteverdi)
• Baciatemi (Ruggiero Giovannelli)
• Ecco piegando (Claudio Monteverdi)
• Filli cara (Ruggiero Giovannelli)
• Longe mi Jesu (Claudio Monteverdi)
• Morirò di dolor (Ruggiero Giovannelli)
• O come vaneggiate (Ruggiero Giovannelli)
• O Jesu mea vita (Claudio Monteverdi)
• O stellae coruscantes (Claudio Monteverdi)
• Occhi miei (Ruggiero Giovannelli)
• Qui laudes tuas cantat (Claudio Monteverdi)
• Rutilante in nocte (Claudio Monteverdi)
• Soavissimi 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.

External links

• List of Coppini's contrafacta of works by Monteverdi