Riccardo Rognoni

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Riccardo Rognoni (c. 1550 – before 20 April 1620) is the earliest known member of the Rognoni family which started one of the earliest of all violin schools, based in Milan. He authored the first known method specifically for the violin - Passaggi. He was directly involved in taking the violin from a street instrument to court instrument in the Lombard area. Some of his excellent violin pupils include his sons Francesco and Giovanni Domenico. The Rognoni family was bestowed the noble title "Taegio" by emperor Sigismund III of Poland in 1605. Riccardo writes in the title of Passaggi that he was "expelled from the Val Tagegia" and the records of bloody conflicts between Milan and Venice in the area explain why he arrived in Milan as a Ghibelline fugitive. Picinelli describes him as an "excellent player of the violin and other string and wind instruments, who succeeded in becoming an Orpheus in his day." Paolo Morigia reported that he was "much praised for his playing of the viola and judged among the finest of the City." His Passaggi and only one instrumental work survived: a piece in an anthology printed by Gastoldi: Il primo libro della musica a due voci, Milan, 1598. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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Doulce Mémoire

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Saints and Sinners - The Music of Medieval and Renaissance Europe

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Ancor che col partire (Diminutionen des 16. Jahrhunderts)

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Concrete

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Virtuoso Chamber Music from the 16th Century

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THE ITALIAN DRAMATIC LAMENT

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O Lux Beata (Renaissance Harp Music)

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Chamber Music (Renaissance) - Bassano, G. / Casa, G. Dalla / Fontana, G.B. / Bovicelli, G.B. / Rognoni, R. / Palestrina, G.P. Da (Le Concert Brise)

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Parole e Querele d'Amore. Madrigali a due voci (XVIIe)

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