Simone Balsamino
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Simone Balsamino was an Italian composer, poet and dramatist. He was the first to set texts from Tasso
's Aminta
as Aminta musicale. He is also credited with the invention of the bass cittern
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Tasso
-People:*Torquato Tasso, the famous Italian 16th-century poet, author of Gerusalemme liberata**Tasso, Lament and Triumph, a symphonic poem by Franz Liszt based on the poet*Bernardo Tasso, his father, also a poet...
's Aminta
Aminta
Aminta is a play written by Torquato Tasso in 1573, represented during a garden party at the court of Ferrara. Both the actors and the public were noble persons living at the Court, who could understand subtle allusions the poet made to that style of life, in contrast with the life of shepherds,...
as Aminta musicale. He is also credited with the invention of the bass cittern
Cittern
The cittern or cither is a stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance. Modern scholars debate its exact history, but it is generally accepted that it is descended from the Medieval Citole, or Cytole. It looks much like the modern-day flat-back mandolin and the modern Irish bouzouki and cittern...
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Works, editions and recordings
- Perla a tragicomedia in music dedicated to the marchese De La Rovere. Venice 1596.
- Le novellette a sei voci ed. Chegai, Andrea Le novelette a sei voci di Simone Balsamino. Prime musiche di „Aminta " di Torquato Tasso, Firenze: Olschki 1993 (Historiae Musicae Cultores Biblioteca 69)
- Balsamino & Monteverdi: Novellette e Madrigali - dir. Diego Fasolis, Vanitas Ensemble, and Guido MoriniGuido MoriniGuido Morini is an Italian pianist, organist, harpsichordist, musicologist and composer.In the ensemble Accordone he performs early baroque works with singer Marco Beasley.Morini was born in Milan....
(Audio CD - 2002)