Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Animuccia, Giovanni

by John Weeks Moore

Animuccia, Giovanni, born at Florence, was an eminent composer of motets and madrigals in tour parts, printed at Venice, before the year 1558. He also published a set of masses at Rome, dedicated to the canons of the Vatican. He was chapel-master of St. Peter's, at Rome, and died in 1571. Animuccia is named as one of the companions of San Filippo Neri, who first applied music to the purpose of attracting company to the Chiesa Nuova, or New Chinch, at Rome, on Sunday evenings ; whence sacred dramas, or mysteries, or moralities, in music, were afterwards called oratorios.