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ANERIO , the name of two See also:

brothers, musical composers, very See also:great See also:Roman masters of 16th-See also:century polyphony. Felice, the See also:elder, was See also:born about 156o, studied under G. M. Nanino and succeeded See also:Palestrina in 1594 as composer to the papal See also:chapel. Several masses and motets of his are printed in Proske's Musica Divina and other See also:modern anthologies, and it is hardly too much to say that they are for the most See also:part worthy of Palestrina himself. The date of his See also:death is conjecturally given as 1630. His See also:brother, Giovanni See also:Francesco, was born about 1567, and seems to have died about 162o. The occasional attribution of some of his numerous compositions to his elder brother is a pardonable See also:mistake, if we may See also:judge by the See also:works that have been reprinted. But the statement, which continues to be repeated in See also:standard works of reference, that " he was one of the first of Italians to use the quaver and its subdivisions " is incomprehensible. Quavers were See also:common See also:property in all musical countries quite See also:early in the 16th century, and' semiquavers appear in a See also:madrigal of Palestrina published in 1574. The two brothers are probably the latest composers who handled 16th-century See also:music as their See also:mother-See also:language; suffering neither from the temotation to indulge even in such mild neologisms as they might have learnt from the elder brother's See also:master, Nanino, nor from the See also:necessity of preserving their purity of See also:style by a mortified negative See also:asceticism. They wrote pure polyphony because they understood it and loved it, and hence their See also:work lives, as neither the progressive work of their own See also:day nor the reactionary work of their imitators could live.

The I2-part Stabat Mater in the seventh See also:

volume of Palestrina's See also:complete works has been by some authorities ascribed to Felice Anerio.

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