Costanzo Antegnati

Costanzo Antegnati (9 December 1549 - 14 November 1624) was an or

ganist, organ builder and composer.

Contents
Biography
Organ builder
Organist and composer
Antegnati's family tree
References

Biography
He was born in Brescia, to a family of prolific organ builders,[1] a profession which also included his father Graziadio.[2] His was
musically educated byGiovanni Contino and Girolamo Cavazzoni.

Organ builder
At age 21, he was sent by his father, who reassured the Duke Guglielmo Gonzaga of his son's abilities, to fix the organ of Santa
Barbara in Mantua. Additionally, Costanzo worked with his father in the construction of the Antegnati organ, at one time the largest
and most famous in the world, which was built in 1581 for the friars of St. Joseph's Church in Brescia. In 1595 he was commissioned
by Catherine Gonzaga, daughter of the Marquis Alfonso Gonzaga, for the construction of the organ at the Church of St. Erasmus
Prepositurale in Castel Goffredo.[3] Although few of his instruments survive, the remarkable Organ Antegnati of the church of St.
Nicholas (1588) in Bergamo was restored in 1996. He is most famous for the work L'arte organica (1608) which provides technical
details of 144 organs built by his family, rules about the tuning of organs and harpsichords, and advice regarding organ registration.[2]

Organist and composer

Costanzo was an organist at the Brescia cathedral from 1584 until 1619.[4][5] Despite suffering a stroke sometime near 1600, he
continued as principal organist.[1] He was relieved of his duties as organist in 1620 because of his crippled left hand. He was not
dismissed from his post and of his salary, as he was deemed "worthy of the city".

He wrote several Masses and madrigals between 1571 and 1592, and published a book of organ pieces, including some of his own, in
1608.[4] In 1571 he published, in Venice, The First Book of Madrigals for Four Voices with a dialogue to Otto. Subsequently he
published, on an almost biennial basis, anthologies of mainly sacred compositions (Masses, psalms and motets), but also including
secular works.

Antegnati's family tree

 LORENZO
fl. 1436
   

GIOVANNI
fl. 1436
BERNARDO
D'ALEMANIA
   

15th century
       
BARTOLOMEO
*~1450 - †post
     

1503
                     
 

                     

GIOVAN FRANCESCO I
GIOVAN BATTISTA GIOVAN GIACOMO
*~1505 - †post
*~1490 - †1559 *~1495 †1563
1583
       

GRAZIADIO BENEDETTO
*1525 †1590 *1535 - 1608
   

COSTANZO
*1549 †1624
   

GIOVAN FRANCESCO
II
*1587 †1630?
                     
 

                     

GRAZIADIO III FAUSTINO II GIROLAMO

*1608 †1656 *1611 †1650 *1614 †1650
   

BARTOLOMEO
LUDOVICO
*1639 †1691
References
1. Lewis, Uncle Dave. "Paul Kenyon - Costanzo Antegnati: L'Antegnata"(http://www.allmusic.com/album/costanzo-ante
gnati-lantegnata-mw0001873919). Allmusic. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
2. Bush, Douglas Earl; Kassel, Richard (2006).The Organ: An Encyclopedia(https://books.google.com/books?id=cgDJ
aeFFUPoC&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=Costanzo+Antegnati#v=onepage&q=Costanzo%20 Antegnati&f=false).
Psychology Press. p. 33.ISBN 0415941741. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
3. Carlo Gozzi, Raccolta di documenti per la Storia di Castelgoffredo e biografia di que' principi Gonzaga che l'hanno
governato personalmente, 1840
4. Pratt, Waldo Selden. The History of Music. New York: G. Schirmer, Inc., 1907. 121.
5. "Costanzo Antegnati" (http://www.hoasm.org/IVE/Antegnati.html). "Here of a Sunday Morning". WBAI. Retrieved
June 22, 2013.

Gli Antegnati. Studi e documenti su una stirpe di organari bresciani del Rinascimento
, a cura di Oscar Mischiati,
Bologna, Pàtron editore, 1995 B
( iblioteca di cultura organaria e organistica, 9).
Flavio Dassenno Bellissimi organi brescianiProvincia di Brescia, 2002

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