Domenico Obizzi

Domenico Obizzi (fl. 1620s) was an Italian composer and singer. Worked in S Marco, Venice 1627 to 1630. At age 13 composed a motet for solo voice and continuo, Jubilate Deo, and in 1627 wrote Madrigali concertati a 2–5 voci con il basso continuo, libro primo and Madrigali et arie a voce sola, libro primo. According to R. Miller,^[1] "Obizzis music is well crafted and shows mastery not only in the fusion of affective madrigalian techniques with lilting tunefulness within the same strophic aria, but also in the way short epigrammatic madrigal texts are dramatized through clever repetitions of text and music.". Surviving works include his Madrigali et arie, Op.2.^[2][3]

References

1. Richard Miller, The Composers of San Marco and Santo Stefano and the Development of Venetian Monody (to 1630), diss., U. of Michigan, 1993), quoted in: Colin Timms and Roark Miller in Grove Music Dictionary: Colin Timms and Roark Miller. Obizzi, Domenico. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. Web. retrieved 18 Aug. 2013. <http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/20216>.
2. IMSLP/Petrucci Music May 10, 2013 - Work Title, Madrigali et arie. Alternative Title, Madrigali et arie a voce sola [...] da cantarsi in chittarone, clavecimbalo, ò altre sorte d' instromenti, ...
3. Roark Thurston Miller The composers of San Marco and Santo Stefano and the development ...- 1993 - Page 54 1 1 7 In the dedications of his two musical collections (1627), Obizzi stated that he was fifteen years old, and at the age of nine years began to live under the protection of the noble Lorenzo Loredan. Thus we can deduce that Domenico was ..."