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- Title
Warriors and musicians: notes from the Colonna family archive.
- Authors
Marshall, Melanie L.
- Abstract
The Colonna family was one of the most important in 16th-century Rome, yet its music patronage activities at that time have largely escaped the attention of musicologists. Marc’Antonio II Colonna, perhaps best known for his leadership at the Battle of Lepanto (1571), was connected to a number of musicians, several of whom were (or had been) military men. The family archive contains a number of autograph letters from musicians, including three letters from Giulio Cesare Brancaccio, warrior and bass singer, two of which place him in Rome in 1574 as Richard Wistreich surmised, and an interesting letter from composer Sebastián Raval to Marc’Antonio’s son, Cardinal Ascanio Colonna, mentioning planned publications and recommending a young (and unfortunately unidentifiable) harpsichord player.
- Subjects
ROME (Italy); ITALY; MUSIC patronage; COLONNA family; COLONNA, Ascanio; COLONNA, Marcantonio, 1535-1584; RAVAL, Sebastian; BRANCACCIO, Guilio Cesare; HISTORY of Rome (Italy), 1420-1798
- Publication
Early Music, 2011, Vol 39, Issue 2, p195
- ISSN
0306-1078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/em/car026