Giovanni Paolo Cima

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Giovanni Paolo Cima (c. 1570 – 1622) was an Italian composer and organist in the early Baroque era. He was a contemporary of Claudio Monteverdi and Girolamo Frescobaldi. Cima came from a family of musicians and was a leading musical figure in Milan. He was director of music and organist at tha Saint Marie chapel of Saint Celso in Milan in 1610. Cima's church music was generally conservative, but his instrumental works were more innovative. He was the first composer to publish trio sonatas and made use in them of the combination of two treble instruments and the basso continuo. Cima died in Milan at about the age of 52. In the early 17th century, Cima was nearly as respected as Monteverdi. But, owing largely to his legendary reluctance to publish his music, Cima is nearly forgotten today - his only remotely familiar works are two sonatas (one for violin and bass, the other for cornet, violin, and violone) that keep finding their way onto recordings of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610. Giovanni Paolo Cima is not to be confused with the artist Giovanni Battista Cima, called Cima da Conegliano. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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The Trio Sonata in 17th-Century Italy

Cima: Concerti Ecclesiastici

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The Collected Recordings Of Il Giardino Armonico

Perla Barocca: Early Italian Masterpieces

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Il Flauto Dolce: 17th to 20th Century Works for Recorder

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Early Italian Chamber Music - Works for Recorder and Basso Continuo

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Il Giardino del Mondo: Giovanni Paolo Cima and His Contemporaries

Early Italian Baroque Ensemble Music

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Chamber Music (Baroque Italian) - Merulo, C. / Gabrieli, A. / Canali, F. / Mortaro, A. / Cima, G.P. (Musica Fiorita)

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Monteverdi: Vespers 1610

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Italian Music of the Seventeenth Century

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Phantasticus - 17th Century Italian Violin Music

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