Cipriano de Rore
Fracno-Flemish composer
1484 CE to 1546 CE
Cipriano de Rore (occasionally Cypriano) (1515 or 1516 – between September 11 and September 20, 1565) is a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in Italy.
Not only is he the central representative of the generation of Franco-Flemish composers after Josquin des Prez who go to live and work in Italy, he is one of the most prominent composers of madrigals in the middle of the 16th century.
His experimental, chromatic, and highly expressive style have a decisive influence on the subsequent development of that secular music form.
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Cipriano de Rore, a Franco-Netherlandish pupil of the composer Adrian Willaert, had in around 1540 become the first to use chromatic harmony as a means of further enhancing the text of the madrigal.
At this time, madrigals are written for as few as three and as many as eight parts, although a four-part texture is generally preferred.
Often sung by solo voices, one to a part, they are also performed with instruments that either substitute for some of the voices or double the various parts.
Rore, a central representative of the generation of Franco-Flemish composers after Josquin Desprez who have gone to live and work in Italy, and who have been formative in the development of the late Renaissance styles here, is also one of the most prominent mid-century composers of madrigals.