A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Balbi, Luigi

by Mary Catherine Hamilton

BALBI, Luigi, born at Venice towards the middle of the 16th century, a Cordelier monk, pupil of Costanzo Porta, director of the music in the church of S. Antonio at Padua, and afterwards in the convent of his order at Venice (1606). He composed masses, motetts, and madrigals (Venice, 1576–1606), and died in 1608. One seven-part and five eight-part motets by him are printed in Bodenschatz's 'Florilegium Portense,' Pt. 2.

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