Giovanni Battista Fasolo, O.F.M.Conv (Asti, ca. 1598 – Palermo after 1664), was a Franciscan friar, organist and composer.
In his middle years Fasolo was primarily known for his 1645 organ annual, which, like L'organo suonarino of Adriano Banchieri, from the generation before him, was intended for use in small parish churches, and are much simpler than those used in Venice.[1][2] In 1659 Fasolo became maestro di cappella to the Archbishop of Monreale.
Until recently many of G.B. Fasolo's secular works were attributed to other composers, particularly the Venetian Francesco Manelli,[3] the composer of the first commercial operas in music history, or to a third unknown composer known as "Il Fasolo?".[4]
However following the work of Francesco Luisi,[5] Mariangela Donà,[6] and Claudio Bacciagaluppi[7] the attribution of the major works under the heading "Il Fasolo?" to G.B. Fasolo is now reasonably secure, and listed under his own entry, by Eleanor Selfridge-Field, in the current New Grove.[8]
Op. 3 "Misticanza di Vigna alla Bergamasca; il Canto della Barchetta et altre cantate et ariette per Voce et Chitarra." Robletti Rome, 1627. Sole surviving copy was in the possession of Dr. Oscar Chilesotti in 1886. A facsimile of a single song "I bei guardi" from this collection is included in an article by Chilesotti- "Notes sur les tablatures de luth et de guitare" originally published in "Encyclopedie de la musique" ; edited by Albert Lavignac (1925). Part 1, vol. 2 : Italie - Allemagne, p. 636-684. This is particularly interesting because figures have been added to the guitar alfabeto symbols to indicate how the accompaniment should be strummed.
Il carro di Madama Lucia. Rome, 1628 (*attributed).
Aria - Se desiate, o bella, 1629 (*attributed).
Op. 6 Second Book of Motets for 2-3 voices, with a mass for 3 voices, Naples, 1635.
Op. 8 Annuale che contiene tutto quello, che deve far un Organista per risponder al Choro tutto l'Anno; for organ, Venice, 1645. (263 pages of organ music!)
Magnificat, Beatus vir, a 5. ca. 1645.(*attributed)
Op. 9 Arie spirituali morali, e indifferenti, 2-3 vv, with dialogues 3vv and two arias for solo voice. Palermo, 1659.
Recordingsedit
Aria Cangia, cangia tue voglie. Aria from Op. 3 La barchetta passaggiera. Rome, 1627. Recorded by Beniamino Gigli London, 1947.[9]
^Ferrari-Barassi, E. 'La Luciata di Francesco Manelli: considerazioni su una perduta stampa della Biblioteca municipale di Breslavia, l'esemplare di un manoscritto berlinese e un componimento del Fasolo', Quadrivium 9.1970, p.211–42
^Chilesotti, O. 'Musica del passato: Fasolo – Asioli' 1886, p.349–54
^Luisi, Francesco. '"Il carro di Madama Lucia et una serenata in lingua lombarda": notes on the definitive attribution to Giovanni Battista Fasolo, in Seicento inesplorato, Lenno 1989, p.481–96
^Donà, Mariangela. Foreword to Giovan Battista Fasolo e la Barchetta Passaggiera Lucca, 1994
^Bacciagaluppi, Claudio. 'G.B. Fasolo "Fenice de' musici ingegni"' in Rivista internazionale di musica sacra 2010-06-09 at the Wayback Machine, 19/2 1998, p.5–66
^Fasolo, G.B. In The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians, Volume 5 2001 p.76
^Version for voice and piano in Anthology of Italian Songs (17th & 18th Century), Vol 2 Alfred Publishing.
^In the booklet notes to this recording, Jean-François Lattarico, Université de la Sorbonne, leaves open the possibility that there may be a third composer, "Il Fásolo?" ("the bean") not to be identified with either F. Manelli or G.B. Fasolo
Scoresedit
Giovanni Battista Fasolo. Annuale. Op. 8. Venedig 1645. Versetten. Ricercaten. Canzonen und Fugen durch das ganze Kirchenjahr für Orgel. Edited by Rudolf Walter. Heidelberg : Willy Müller-Süddeutscher Musikverlag, [1965, 77].
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