Domenico Mazzocchi

Domenico Mazzocchi (baptised 8 November 1592 in Civita Castellana21 January 1665 in Veja) was an Italian Baroque composer of vocal music, of the generation after Claudio Monteverdi.

He was a Roman lawyer, studied music with Giovanni Bernardino Nanino (or Nanini), also in Rome, and entered the service of cardinal Ippolito Aldobrandini in 1621.

He is associated with providing music for the popes, particularly Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII, until Mazzocchi's death in Rome on 21 January 1665.

His younger brother, Virgilio Mazzocchi, was a less notable composer and had a similar career as a Vatican music provider.

Works

Operas La catena d'Adone (1626) L'innocenza difesa

Other

Madrigali a 5 voci in partitura (1638), madrigals which have Basso continuo, similar to the late Monteverdi; these contain the first notations, as explained in the preface, of the persisting conventional musical symbols < 'crescendo', > 'decrescendo', p(iano), f(orte) and tr(illo) Oratorio David Maddalena church music, notably motets