Montella, Giovanni Domenico
Montella, Giovanni Domenico
Montella, Giovanni Domenico, Italian lutenist, organist, and composer; b. Naples, c. 1570; d. there, before July 2, 1607. He studied with Giovanni de Macque, and was a lutenist in the academy of Don Fabrizio Gesualdo. In 1591 he was engaged as lutenist in the Spanish viceroy’s chapel, where he also was an organist (from 1599). He wrote Psalms and other church music, and publ. 4 vols, of villanelles, 2 vols, of motets, and 10 vols, of madrigals. Some of his sacred music is included in Istituzioni e monumenti dell’arte musicale italiano (Vol. V, 1934).
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