Italian composer. He was a Benedictine monk [...] His output consisted mainly of church music in the concertato style, most of it contained in a volume each of vesper psalms, motets, and Magnificat settings based on the eight Gregorian tones. [...]
Source: Jerome Roche: Giovanni Paolo Nodari quoted from Grove Music Online accessed 10 October 2010, Complete article (requires subscription).
Nodari Giovanni Paolo (Brescia II half century. XVI post-1630). Friar composer belonging to the Congregation of the Hermits of St. Jerome from Fiesole (Fesulanae Congregationis, v. inscription Corona Gemmarum Coelestium, p. 2), a religious order founded by Blessed Carlo Guidi of Montegranelli (FC) in 1360 and suppressed by Innocent IX in 1668 . Branched especially in central and north at the time of the suppression of the Congregation Fiesolana counted forty houses. Among these, Brescia boasted the presence of this religious family since 1475 headquartered first at Santa Maria delle Grazie location Conchiglia (current area of the former little hospital of children Ronchettini, today remembered by a newsstand in the fence of the villa in Via C. Pisacane 31) and then in 1516 the present church of the former Humiliated of Santa Maria delle Grazie. Unlike other religious orders, where you can have a good group of brothers musicians, the Congregation for the moment Fiesolana counts among its ranks only five musicians, however, all active in Brescia: Pietro Lappi, Cesario Gussago, Giovanni Paolo Capello, Aurelio Berettari and Giovanni Paolo Nodari. Mistakenly quoted by the most authoritative dictionaries music (Eitner, Schmidl, New Grove, DEUMM, Internet, ...) as 'Monaco Benedictine', 'monaco Cassino', 'Monaco in the convent of the Congregation of Monte Cassino Fiesolana' (imprecision, especially the latter , historical-religious as the terms: 'monaco Cassino' (Benedictine order) and 'Congregation Fiesolana' (religious order of the Hermits of St. Jerome with Augustinian rule, v. above) are two different institutions are not associated. Also possible interpretation of 'monaco Cassino' as 'monaco city of Cassino' is ruled out as the Congregation Fiesolana not possessed monasteries in this area). Composer unfortunately still ignored by musicologists, the little known is derived from the 'Introductions' and the 'dedication' of his work. Someone is active in Bressanone in 1620 (New Grove?), Surely, given his dedication, he lived and worked in convents of Mantua (Mantova, Gazzuolo) and Venice, in the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie (most important house after 'hermitage of Fiesole), which will publish its three printed works. Except some madrigals its production consists mainly of sacred music in concert style, with and without instruments, whose plant is based on the eight tones of Gregorian. Unlike his other three brothers musicians Giovanni Paolo Nodari has not yet been the subject of a biographical study-specific historical-musicological can better frame his figure and his work in the musical landscape of Baroque Po.
Opere: - Io. Pauli Nodarii Brixiensis Mellifluus Concentus. In Psalmos David, qui in praecipuis anni solemnitatibus ad Vesperas. Quatuor vocibus. Organo aliisque musicis Instrumentis decantandi erunt. Nec non in duo Beatissime Virginis Deipare Cantica Iisdem instrumentis concinenda, Venetijs, Apud Ricciardum Amadinum. MDCV (dedicati a Margerita Gonzaga duchessa di Sabbioneta; RISM A I: N 732; esempl. Bologna CMBM: BB 50 - BRq: S.R.H. 19: A - Brescia, Duomo: 4.A/II incompl.) - Corona Gemmarum Coelestium per Ioan. Paulum Nodarium. In hac Musicalem Harmoniam Sola, Duobus, Tribus, Quatuor, et Quinque Vocibus, Contextam. Nunc primum in lucem edita. Venetijs, M.DC.XIII, Apud Ricciardum Amadinum (dedicati a padre Stefano Penolacio, teologo e priore generale della Congregazione Fiesolana, dal convento di san Pietro a Belforte frazione di Gazoli [Gazzuolo MN. Qui nel 1506 il cardinale Pirro Gonzaga, figlio di Gianfrancesco ed Antonia del Balzo (capostipiti della dinastia di Gazzuolo), donò il complesso monastico ai Girolamini. Il piccolo tempio, in questo periodo, fu trasformato o, forse, ricostruito insieme all’attiguo convento ed iniziò, pure, ad essere utilizzato come pantheon dei Gonzaga, v. Domenico Bergamaschi, Storia di Gazolo e suo marchesato, Turris, 1983]; RISM A I: N 733; esempl.: Bologna CMBM: BB 51) - Harmonicum concentum Ioannis Pauli Nodarii Brixiensis In Almae Virginis Dei Genitricis Mariae, Canticum Ad Organi comoditatem distributum super octo ecclesiasticos tonos Quinque Vocibus Divisum. Sub signo Gardani Venetijs MDCXX, Apud Bartholomeum Magni (dedicati al principe don Vincenzo Gonzaga, da Venezia; RISM A I: N 734; esempl.: Bologna CMBM: BB 52; München BSB) - Madrigali a 5 voci (1620, perso), riportato solo da New Grove - mottetti in Viridarium musico-marianum. Trier, L. Zetzner, 1627 (RISM B I p. 495; esempl. Paris, Bibl. Nat.) - 2 mottetti in Siren coelestis duarum, trium et quattuor vocum...., München, A. Berg, 1616 (rist. 1622) (RISM B I p. 452; esempl.: Resenburg, Proskesche Musikbibliothek) - 2 mottetti in Deliciae sacrae musices...., Ingolstadt, G. Haelin, 1626, A. Berg, 1614 (rist. 1622) (RISM B I p. 492; esempl.: London, British Museum) - 1 madrigale in Giardino novo bellissimo di varii fiori musicali scieltissimi il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci raccolti da Melchior Borchgrevinck..., Kopenhagen, H. Waltkirch, 1606 (RISM B I p. 406; esempl. London, British Museum; v. Partit. in www.WIMA Werner) - suoi madrigali nel manoscritto Egerton 3665 della British Library di Londra (v. Cherubini O., cit.)
Bibliografia: - Fappani Antonio (a cura), Enciclopedia bresciana, Brescia, Editrice La Voce del Popolo, ad vocem - Sala Mariella, Catalogo del Fondo Musicale dell’Archivio Capitolare del Duomo di Brescia, Torino, EDT/Musica, 1984 - Mischiati Oscar (a cura), Bibliografia delle opere dei musicisti bresciani pubblicate a stampa dal 1497 al 1740, Firenze, L. S. Olschki, 1992, 2 vol. - Del Silenzio Ruggero (a cura), Bibliografia delle opere dei musicisti bresciani pubblicate nei secoli XVI e XVII. Opere in Antologie, Firenze, Olschki, 2002 - Dizionario Enciclopedico Universale della musica e dei musicisti, Torino, ad vocem - New Grove, ad vocem - Cherubini Oliver, Il manoscritto Egerton 3665 della British Library di Londra, 2 voll., tesi di laurea Scuola di Paleografia e Filologia Musicale di Cremona, a.a. 1986-1987 - Cherubini O., Un ‘Nuovo’ madrigalista bresciano, in 'Brescia Musica', a. VI n. 26 aprile 1991 - AA.VV., A viola da gamba miscellanea: articles from and inspired by viol symposiums organized by the Ensemble baroque de Limoges, France, Presses Univ. Limoges, 2005, p. 103 - v. 'International journal of musicology', Volumi 7-8, P. Lang, 2000, p. 16-17
Source: Alfredo Castagna & Remo Crosatti
