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Formica, Antonio [Antonino](b Licata, Sicily, ?c1575; d Palermo, 17 March 1638). Italian composer. He came of a noble Palermo family and was the first pupil – at any rate in Palermo – of Antonio Il Verso, who included pieces by him in four of his own collections. On 1 April 1605 his fellow pupil G.B. Calì dedicated to him his book of two-part ricercares. On 31 August that year he was received (one year before his fellow pupil Giuseppe Palazzotto e Tagliavia) into the Congregazione dell'Oratorio dei Filippini at Palermo, and on 15 December he became a cleric. In February 1606 he became a deacon and priest. On 21 October 1608 he was made a full member of the order, in whose service he spent the rest of his life: from 1614 onwards he was several times appointed its director of music, and he was provost from 17 April 1621 to 28 May 1623 and during the period 1632–3. His music is characterized by skilful counterpoint, rhythmic variety and flexible harmony, achieving an effective realization of the sense of the words. WORKS
BIBLIOGRAPHYEitnerQ O. Tiby: I polifonisti siciliani del XVI e XVII secolo (Palermo, 1969), 95–6 P.E. Carapezza: ‘I duo della scuola siciliana’ [preface with Eng. trans.], MRS, ii (1971) L. Bianconi: ‘Sussidi bibliografici per i musicisti siciliani del Cinque e Seicento’, RIM, vii (1972), 3–38 P.E. Carapezza: ‘Dialogo immaginario’: end note, MRS, vi (1991) F. Piperno: ‘Polifonia italiana e mercati europei’: preface to MRS, vi (1991) PAOLO EMILIO CARAPEZZA, GIUSEPPE COLLISANI Formosa, Riccardo(b Rome, 1 Sept 1954). Australian composer. Formosa's initial professional experience was in rock music, as a member of the Little River Band in Melbourne. He subsequently enrolled at the NSW Conservatorium (now Sydney Conservatorium) in 1979–80, where his teachers included Don Banks and Martin Wesley-Smith; he then studied privately with Richard Toop before going to Rome to work with Donatoni at the Accademia di S Cecilia. Donatoni had already been a major influence on Formosa during his Australian student years, though the most impressive work of this period, Dedica for amplified oboe and orchestra, embraces a much wider range of Italian influences, including Maderna. Direct contact with Donatoni led to more profound absorption of his teacher's methods, and his subsequent works are notable in equal measure for their arcane technical procedures (a series of codes, often extrapolated from the names of dedicatees) and a brilliant, lucid surface which unites immaculate craftmanship with memorable invention. The outstanding works of the mid-1980s are Pour les vingt doigts, Iter and Vertigo. Formosa's frankly tortuous compositional method, which made the production of anything but chamber works exceptionally difficult, led to a personal crisis. In 1987, after completing just 11 works, he stopped composing concert music and returned to the commercial world, working primarily as a studio arranger and producer. His decision to do so was widely regarded as an enormous loss to Australian music. WORKS
BIBLIOGRAPHYJ. Wilkinson: ‘Riccardo Formosa's “Domino”’, Ossia, i (1989), 10–16 M. Barkl: ‘Vertigo’: Riccardo Formosa's Composition Technique (diss., Deakin U., 1995) RICHARD TOOP Formschneider [Andre, Andreae, Grapheus, Enderlin, Enndres], Hieronymus [Jeronimus](b Mergentheim [now Bad Mergentheim]; d Nuremberg, 7 May 1556). German printer. It has been suggested that his father was Fritz Enderlin (Lenckner, 154), and he was certainly mentioned in an imperial document in 1515 as ‘Iheronimussen Enderlin, formbsneider zu Nurnberg’. However, he used the latinization ‘Andre’ almost exclusively by 1504 and until the early 1520s, after which he replaced his family name with a designation of his principal profession, ‘Formschneider’. (‘Grapheus’ is found only in three colophons presumably written by Hans Ott.) Formschneider, resident in Nuremberg by 1515 and receiving citizenship in 1523, was Albrecht Dürer’s principal woodcutter from 1515 to 1528 and the official die sinker of Nuremberg from 1535 to 1542. Although only a part-time printer, between 1525 and 1555 he printed at least one edition in each of all but three years. He did not have a shop for sales, and it appears that most of his printing was commissioned. One of the most gifted block and type cutters of the German Renaissance, he cut the many illustrations and diagrams in, among others, Dürer’s treatises and Hans Gerle’s lutebooks, and cut and cast the founts, including only the second single-impression music typeface in Germany and the famous Neudörfer-designed Fraktur; his finest print is Ostendorfer’s Warhafftige Beschreibung des andern Zugs in Osterreich. Formschneider’s role solely as commissioned printer is seen most clearly in his six titles for Ott; the Choralis constantinus, the first volume of which was printed for Ott’s widow (see illustration) and the others for the Augsburg bookseller Georg Willer; and Senfl’s odes, the printing commissioned by Minervius through Hieronymus Baumgartner of Nuremberg. Although music became central to his printing activities, there is no evidence that he had any understanding of or special interest in it.
BIBLIOGRAPHYBrownI MGG1 (H. Albrecht) G.W.K. Lochner, ed.: Des Johann Neudörfer Schreib- und Rechenmeisters zu Nürnberg Nachrichten von Künstlern und Werkleuten daselbst aus dem Jahre 1547 (Vienna, 1875) T. Hampe: Nürnberger Ratsverlässe über Kunst und Künstler im Zeitalter der Spätgotik und Renaissance, i (Vienna, 1904) G. Lenckner: ‘Hieronymus Andreae, Formschneider in Nürnberg, und M. Bernhard Bubenleben, Pfarrer in Mergentheim’, Württembergisch Franken, new ser., xxviii–xxix (1953–4), 152–4 D.W. Krummel: ‘Early German Partbook Type Faces’, Gutenberg-Jb, lx (1985), 80–98 R.R. Gustavson: Hans Ott, Hieronymus Formschneider, and the ‘Novum et insigne opus musicum’ (Nuremberg, 1537–1538) (diss., U. of Melbourne, 1998) ROYSTON GUSTAVSON Directory: download -> 3062a7ba-8b89-4266-8568-82026f790e50 -> Bibliografia%20Básica download -> Northern England’s set-jetting locations download -> Bbc archives: Beyond the programme download download -> Occupational health and safety download -> Dynatest 3031 lwd light Weight Deflectometer download -> Forth coming competitive exams download -> English Olympiad Tasks: 10 th form Аудіювання, 10 клас. Текст download -> Brush High School Morning Announcements Friday, September 05, 2014 all school download -> Year 9 The Arts — Music download -> Years 7 and 8 standard elaborations — Australian Curriculum: Music draft Bibliografia%20Básica -> Oakeley, Sir Herbert (Stanley) Download 19.1 Mb. Share with your friends:
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