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Isnardi, Paolo
(b Ferrara, 1536; d Ferrara, 7 May 1596). Italian composer. He was a pupil of the Ferrarese composer Francesco Manara. The title-pages of his works show that he was maestro di cappella at Ferrara Cathedral from 1573. Although they also claim that he was a ‘ducal musician’, he never appears in the salary rolls of the Ferrarese court; it seems that he was a ducal musician only in the sense that he oversaw the music at the duke’s principal church. He is not to be confused with Paolo Ferrarese, a musician and Cassinensian monk active in Ferrara during the first and second thirds of the 16th century. Superbi maintained that Isnardi had many students, including several sons, who became honoured musicians: Paolo Isnardi, maestro di cappella at the Accademia della morte, Ferrara, from 1604 to 1609 was probably one of these sons; Vincenzo Isnardi, who wrote a madrigal printed in Il giardino dei musici ferraresi (RISM 15919), is probably another. Isnardi was married to Lucrezia Pocaterra, the sister of the Ferrarese poet Annibale Pocaterra. A perusal of several of his madrigals from the 1580s indicates that Isnardi was a skilful, serious, conservative and rather unimaginative madrigal composer.
WORKS
all published in Venice
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Missae, 5vv (1568); ed. in Ansbacher, ii
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Psalmi omnes qui ad Vesperas decantantur et compositiones falsi bordoni, 5vv (1569)
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Psalmi omnes ad Vesperas una cum 3 Magnificat, 4vv (1571)
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Lamentationes, 5vv (1572)
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Missae, 4vv (1573); 1 ed. in Ansbacher, ii
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Missarum liber secundus, 5vv (1581); 1 ed. in Ansbacher, ii
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Magnificat omnitoni, 4–6vv (1582)
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Lamentationes et benedictus, 4vv (1584)
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Missarum liber primus, 6vv (1590); 1 ed. in Ansbacher, ii
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Missa cum motetto pro concertis disjunctis, 8vv (1594)
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Laudate pueri, 5vv, 15907
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Further sacred works, D-As, I-FZac
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Il primo libro de madrigali, 5vv (1568)
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Il secondo libro de madrigali, 5vv (1577); 1 previously pubd, 157015
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Il terzo libro de madrigali, 5vv (1581)
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Il primo libro de madrigali, 6vv (1589)
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8 madrigals, 5, 6, 8 vv: 15825, 158310, 15844, 15867, 158610, 159015, 15919, 159214; 4 madrigals, 5vv, I-MOe
| BIBLIOGRAPHY
NewcombMF
A. Superbi: Apparato de gli huomini illustri della città di Ferrara (Ferrara, 1620)
M.A. Guarini: Compendio historico delle chiese … di Ferrara (Ferrara, 1621)
B.K. Ansbacher: The Masses of Paolo Isnardi (diss., U. of Cincinnati, 1972)
ANTHONY NEWCOMB
Iso [Yzo, Yso], Pierre
(fl c1715–c1794). French composer and teacher. In the sources his surname appears as ‘Yzo’ until 1759, after which it becomes ‘Iso’. He was not related to the composer and bassoonist Etienne Ozi, or the bassoonist François Ozi, as has been suggested. He went to Moulins from Nevers and became, in 1736, maître de musique at the Académie de Musique and a director of a music school there: he was required to conduct rehearsals and concerts and teach singing and the violin. He left in 1742 and was probably in Paris by 1748. Between 1753 and 1754 he played a part in the Querelle des Bouffons by publishing under the name of Yzo an answer to Rousseau's Lettre sur la musique française (Paris, 1753) entitled Lettre sur celle de Monsieur Jean-Jacques Rousseau … sur la musique. His op.1, a motet for full chorus and orchestra to words from Psalm xcvii, was published probably shortly before two one-act ballets héroïques of his appeared at the Paris Opéra: Phaëteuse and Zémide, which together with Apollon berger d'Admète (music by Grenet) formed part of the Fragments héroïques produced on 20 July 1759. Zémide was also performed in Lyons in 1764 at the academy there. Both were printed in full score and reveal a rather simplistic and perfunctory approach to the genre.
A court document, Mémoire pour le sieur Iso, maître de musique … contre le sieur Lagarde, aussi maître de musique, défendeur (1759, US-Wc), reveals that Iso attempted to collect payment for composing and revising several works for his fellow composer, Pierre de La Garde. He claimed that La Garde had a reputation for making false promises of shared payment and commissions in exchange for work. The document cites five works which he worked on for La Garde. Iso's witnesses included La Garde's copyist and librettist, as well as other musicians who allegedly observed Iso working on these compositions in La Garde's house. However, Charles-François Clément and Joseph de Laporte reported that the judgment went against Iso at both the Châtelet and the Parlement.
WORKS stage -
La convalescence de Mgr le Dauphin (cantatille), 30 Aug 1752 (Paris, 1752)
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L'Amour malheureux (cantatille) (Paris, c1752)
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Phaëteuse (ballet héroïque, 1, L. Fuzelier), Paris, Opéra, 20 July 1759 (Paris, 1759)
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Zémide (ballet héroïque, 1, Chevalier de Laurès), Paris, Opéra, 20 July 1759 (Paris, 1759)
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Cantate Domino, grand motet, chorus, orch, op.1, perf. Concert Spirituel, July 1752 (Paris, c1759)
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Benedic anima mea, Dominum, grand motet, perf. Versailles, chapel, 8 and 9 March 1753, ?lost
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Petit motet, perf. Concert Spirituel, 6 April 1773, ?lost
| BIBLIOGRAPHY
BrenetC
FétisB
La LaurencieEF
MGG1 (M. Briquet)
Annonces, affiches et avis divers (27 July, 30 Aug 1752), 460
Journal des savants (1754), 451
Mémoires de Trévoux (Feb 1754)
J. de la Porte and J.-M. Clément: Anecdotes dramatiques (Paris, 1775/R), 253
P.-L. Roualle de Boisgelou: Catalogue de la musique pratique (Paris, 1803)
E. Bouchard: L'Académie de musique de Moulins (Moulins, 1888), 596
HAROLD E. GRISWOLD
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