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Giovanni del Turco
5+ albums
italian17th century
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Giovanni del Turco (born June 21, 1577 in Florence , † September 20, 1647 ibid) was an Italian composer at the transition between the music of the Renaissance and that of the early Baroque . Apart from his compositional activity, he carried out several legal and administrative activities for the Medici in the course of his life . The otherwise unoccupied Lorenzo del Turco, of whom isolated compositions have come down, could be a younger brother of Giovanni del Turco. Giovanni del Turco's family belonged to the nobility. His father Antonio (* 1551; † 1597) was a member of the Cavaliere di S. Stefano in Pisa , after his death del Turco took over this position. Nevertheless, the family does not seem to have been particularly respected - suggests that del Turco had to do genealogy himself to prove his aristocratic origin. In the course of his life, however, he managed to increase his reputation and take on various administrative and legal functions in Florence. This included membership in the Consiglio de 'Dugento di S. Spirito , the council of one of the districts of Florence. At the same time as this social rise, the apparently musically gifted del Turco made contacts with the artistic circle of the Florentine Camerata , where he was tutored by Marco da Gagliano. This made del Turco the dedicatee of his second madrigal book. After the death of Jacopo Corsi , the patron of the Camerata, del Turco worked as "secretary" in the Accademia degli Elevati founded by da Gagliano in 16