Composers M

Luca Marenzio (1553-1599)

According to The New Penguin Dictionary of Music, Luca Marenzio was an Italian composer; wrote more than 200 madrigals, very successful and having much influence in England. Wrote also a Mass and other church music, but, exceptionally for an Italian of that period, never held a church appointment. Worked for a time in Warsaw, but mainly in Rome.

Sheet Music:
Sheet music at SheetMusicPlus.com
Websites:
Marenzio, Luca (1553 or 1554 - 1599) , biography and works by naxos.com.
CCD: Marenzio, Luca (1553/1554-1599) , biography etc.
Books:
[§] Die Petrarca-Vertonungen von Luca Marenzio : Dichtung und Musik im spèaten Cinqu by Bernhard Janz
[§] II Sesto Libro De' Madrigali a Sei Voci 1595 (Luca Marenzio : The Secular Works by Luca Marenzio
[§] Madrigali a Quatto Cinque E Sei Voci, Libro Primo 1588 : Luca Marenzio by Luca Marenzio

Recorder Music CDs:
 Viva l'amore: Recorder Quartets 16th-17th cent. by Flanders Recorder Quartet