Michele Pesenti

to be distinguished from the blind keyboard composer Martino Pesenti, (Venice, c. 1600 – c. 1648)

Michele Pesenti (Verona c. 1470 – after 1524) was an Italian composer and lutenist who served the House of Este at Ferrara. Michele Pesenti. was one of the most lively and inventive of the so-called frottola composers, including Marchetto Cara and Bartolomeo Tromboncino.^[1]

Selected recordings

• "Ha' tu veduto un mio vitellin bianco" on La Favola di Orfeo 1494, reconstruction of a Florentine entertainment, by Huelgas Ensemble, dir. Paul Van Nevel. Seon.
• frottola: "Non mi doglio gia d'amore" on Banchetti Musicali a la Corte Estense. by La Bottega musicale Ferrarese. Bongiovanni GB 5001 (LP) 1985
• frottola: "Dal lecto me levava" on Barzellette - Frottole Italiane del Cinquecento. by Retrover dir. Markus Tapio, Opus111 30-243 1998
• villota: "Quando lo pomo vien da lo pomaro" on Cantar alla Pavana Canzoni, Frottole, Villotte e Madrigali dell'Apografo Miscellaneo Marciano (1526) (music from fragments in the Marciana Library, Venice) by Consort Veneto dir. Giovanni Toffano, Tactus 520002
• "Alhor quando arivava" on Cigni, Capre, Galli e Grilli. by Fortuna Ensemble dir. Roberto Cascio, Tactus 460301 1998
• instrumental: "Un cavalier di Spagna" on Musica dell'epoca di Cristoforo Colombo

References

1. ^ Nino Pirrotta, Elena Povoledo Music and theatre from Poliziano to Monteverdi‎ 1982 p31

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