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Mayone, Ascanio
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Brief biography noting key works and emphasizing the influence of his keyboard compositions on the Baroque style. From the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa.../learning/grove.html?record=5875
Biography, influences, partial discography, and links to period-related material from the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program.
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HOASM: Ascanio Mayone Annunziata there as organist from 1593 and maestro di cappella from 1621; he was also organist at the royal chapel from 1602. He published madrigals, but his main work is his two volumes of keyboard music, Capricci per sonar (1603,...Reviews of a CD by Christopher Stembridge using organ and harpsichord to play various ricercars, canzonas, madrigali passaggiati, toccatas, and variations.
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Christopher Stembridge Ascanio Mayone Stembridge regarding availablility Awarded German Record Reviewers Prize Reviews It is a fine thing when a meticulous editor of early music has the qualities needed to bring it to life in performances as imaginative as these. Christopher Stembridge is such...