Andrea Gabrieli

Madrigali et ricercari […] a quattro voci

Edited by Alessandro Borin

“Edizione Nazionale delle opere di Andrea Gabrieli”, 14

Ricordi, Milan, 2012

The critical edition is based on the first and only edition of the Madrigali et ricercari […] a quattro voci published posthumously in Venice between 1589 and 1590. The collection includes fourteen madrigali and seven instrumental ricercari, heterogeneous materials distributed over an exceptionally large time span: the Preface provides brief historical and stylistic references to the compositions. The Critical Commentary offers an analytical description of the editio princeps (there are only four surviving complete copies, in the Offentliche Bibliothek, Basel, the Musiksammlung des Grafen von Schonborn-Wiesentheid, the British Library and the Biblioteca Capitolare, Verona) together with a synthetic description of some anthologies of music which in turn include also some of the compositions published in this edition (among them Gli amorosi concenti, a collection printed and dedicated, in 1586, to the imperial ambassador to Venice, Vito di Dorimbergo).