Ruffo, Vincenzo (c.1508-1587).

2 volumes, parties de cantus et tenor, in-4 oblong (15.2 x 21.2 cm), 16 feuillets chacun ([1), 30 & [1] pages), vignette de l'éditeur et initiales gravées sur bois à la page de titre, musique imprimée, parties d'Alto et de Bassus manquantes, déreliés, infime travail de vers aux coins intérieurs.

RISM R3067 (2 exemplaires complets); Censimento 16 CNCE 45692 (un seul exemplaire complet)

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La musique de Vincenzo Ruffo n'est pas parue en vente publique depuis la vente Landau, chez Sotheby's à Londres, en 1949. Il s'agit de l'unique exemplaire en France de madrigaux composés par Ruffo. Ces deux volumes contiennent les premières impressions de quatre madrigaux, jamais inclus dans les éditions précédentes. Une partie du Canto seule est conservée à la British Library.

Ruffo fut l'un des compositeurs italiens les plus productifs et versatiles du milieu du XVIème siècle. Il était membre de la première académie italienne de musique : l'Accademia Filarmonica à Vérone, sa ville natale, où il composa des madrigaux à profusion. Il fut successivement maestro di capella à Vérone (où il enseigna probablement à Ingegneri (le professeur de Monteverdi) et Andrea Gabrieli) et à Milan.

 

Rare: We have no record of music by Vincenzo Ruffo appearing at auction since the Landau sale in our London rooms in 1949. This is the only copy of any of Ruffo's madrigals in France. These two parts include the first printings of four madrigals not printed in earlier editions. There is a single Cantus part in the British Library.

Ruffo was one of the most productive and versatile Italian composers of the mid sixteenth century. He was a member of the first Italian Academy primarily concerned with music: the Accademia Filarmonica of Verona, the city where he was born, and where he composed madrigals prolifically. He was successively maestro di capella at Verona (where his pupils probably included Ingegneri (Monteverdi's teacher) and Andrea Gabrieli) and Milan.