Nanino (Nanini), Giovanni Bernardino
Nanino (Nanini), Giovanni Bernardino
Nanino (Nanini), Giovanni Bernardino, Italian composer and teacher, brother of Giovanni Maria Nanino; b. c. 1560; d. Rome, 1623. He was a boy soprano at Vallerano Cathedral, and studied music with his brother. From 1591 to 1608 he was maestro di cappella at S. Luigi dei Francesi in Rome. His brother lived with him in a home maintained by the church, where they boarded and taught the boy sopranos. He subsequently was maestro di cappella at S. Lorenzo in Damaso, the small church in the home of Cardinal Montalto. He was a significant composer and teacher.
Works
vocal: sacred:Motecta for 2 to 4 Voices (Rome, 1610); Motecta, liber secundus for 1 to 5 Voices, with Basso Continuo (Rome, 1611); Motecta, liber tertius for 1 to 5 Voices, with Basso Continuo (Rome, 1612); Motecta, liber quartus for 1 to 5 Voices, with Basso Continuo (Rome, 1618); Salmi vespertini for 4 to 8 Voices (Rome, 1620; ed. by K. Proske, Musica divina, 1/3 and II/2, Regensburg, 1860–74); Venite exultemus for 3 Voices, with Basso Continuo (Assisi, 1620); etc. secular:II primo libro de madrigali for 5 Voices (Venice, 1588); II secondo libro de madrigali for 5 Voices (Venice, 1599); II terzo libro de madrigali for 5 Voices (Rome, 1612); etc.
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis Mclntire