Mazzocchi, Domenico

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | 345 words | Copyright

Mazzocchi, Domenico (b Cività Castellana, 1592; d Rome, 1665). It. composer and lawyer. Wrote opera (1626), oratorio Querimonia di S. Maria Maddalena (Plaint of St Mary Magdalene, 1631), and pubd. book of madrigals (1640) in which signs < and > for crescendo and diminuendo, f for forte, p for piano, and tr for trill first appear.

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