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1NANINI
3lished by Kistner (Leipsic, 1876).—Mus. Wochenblatt (1876), 722.
5NANINI, GIOVANNI BERNARDINO (Ambros gives both Bernardo and Bernardino), born at Vallerano about the middle of the 16th century, died in Rome about 1620. He studied counterpoint under his elder brother, Giovanni Maria. Went afterwards to Rome, where he was made maestro di cappella at S. Luigi de' Francesi, and later at S. Lorenzo in Damaso. About 1575 he began to assist his brother in his newly founded music school. No more is known of his life. Although not so imposing a genius as his brother, he was still one of the greatest men of the "great" Roman contrapuntal school. His compositions have a little more of modern flavour than those of his great contemporaries, and he was one of the first of the school to add an organ part to his vocal counterpoint. Many of his most important works, among them his Salve Regina, 12 voc., are still in MS. Published works: Madrigali a 5 voci, Lib. I. (Venice, 1579, 1588, 1598); Idem, Lib. II. (ib., 1599); Motecta 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 voc. una cum gravi voce ad organi sonum accomodata, Lib. I. (Rome, 1608); Idem, Lib. II. (ib., 1611); Idem, Lib. III. (ib., 1612); Idem, Lib. IV. (ib., 1618); Salmi a 4 voci con l'organo (ib., 1620); Venite, exultemus Domino, a 3 voci col' organo (Assisi, 1620); Psalms, motets, and madrigals, some in MS., and many published in various collections by Phalesius and others; MS. Psalms and Motets 8 voc., and Salve Regina, 12 voc., in Santini collection, now in the episcopal Palace at Münster; 3 psalms, 4 voc., in Proske's Musica Divina.—Ambros, iv. 70; Riemann; Fétis; Grove.
7NANINI, GIOVANNI MARIA, born at Vallerano, about 1540, died in Rome, March 11, 1607. Elder brother of the above; studied counterpoint at Goudimel's school in Rome; the legend that he was a fellow pupil of Palestrina is undoubtedly false, as Palestrina must have left the school before Nanini entered it. He returned to Vallerano as maestro di cappella, but in 1571 went back to Rome to succeed Palestrina as maestro di cappella at Santa Maria Maggiore; in 1575 he resigned this post to Ippolito Tartaglini, and established the first public music school in Rome. At this famous school, in which he was assisted by his brother Giovanni Bernardino, and by Palestrina himself, almost all the best composers of the decline of the great Roman period got their musical education. On Oct. 27, 1577, he was elected member of the Pontifical choir, for which he wrote many of his best works. He was buried in S. Luigi de' Francesi. Nanini was one of the greatest composers of the great Roman school; indeed he was little inferior to Palestrina. His works are especially noted for their perfection of form and style. His six-voice "Hodie nobis cælorum rex" is still sung annually in the Sixtine Chapel on Christmas morning. Works: Motetti a 3 voci (Venice, Gardano, 1578); do. a 5 voci (ib., 1578); Madrigali a 5 voci, lib. I. (ib., 1578); do., lib. II. (ib., 1580; other eds., 1582, 1587, 1605); do., lib. III. (ib., 1584); do., lib. IV. (ib., 1586); Canzonetti a 2 voci (ib., 1587); Psalmo 7 voc. in Fabio Costantini's Salmi a 8 di diversi, etc. (Naples, 1615); Motets in Phalesius's Harmonia celeste, Melodia olimpica, Musica divina, Symphonia angelica, etc. Cento cinquanta sette contrappunti e canoni a 2-11 voci, sopra del canto formo intitolato La Base di Costanzo Festa, MS.; 1 Madrigal, 8 voc., MS., in the Munich Library; Three motets, 3 voc., one do., 4 voc.; one Miserere, 4 voc., in Proske's Musica divina; other single works in collections by Rochlitz, Tucher, Lück, and Prince von der Moszkwa. Regole di Giov. Maria e di Bernardino Nanini, per far il contrappunto a men-
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