Re: Salamone Rossi

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Mike Morganstern asked:
>I am looking for sheet music of any Organ Works by Salomone Rossi,  a baroque
era composer that preceded J. S. Bach.<

Dear Mike,

Although Rossi's life extended into the Baroque period (1570-1630),
stylistically he belongs more to the late Renaissance-at least the music I've
seen of his does. If you have access to a university music library, that's
where I'd start. To the best of my knowledge, at least his choral music has
been edited into modern notation in a "monument"-type book. I don't have
Grove's Dictionary of Music (any good music library would) at home, but they
will usually list a composer's complete works following the bibligraphical
article. My Harvard Biographical Dictionary mentions among the sources for its
article: _A Thematic Index to the Works of Salamon rossi_, by Joel Newman and
Fritz Rikko (Hackensack, NJ, 1972), which also might be of help. It doesn't
mention any keyboard works of Rossi, but no doubt he must have composed some.

Good luck. Maybe one of the scholars on our list will have more complete
information for you.

Best wishes,
Steve

Steve Barnett
Composer/Arranger/Producer
Barnett Music Productions
BarMusProd (at) aol(dot)com