Re[2]: Salamone Rossi

[richard_wolpoe <richard_wolpoe...>]

     Dear List,
        I don't know this for a fact, but I would strongly suspect that the 
     JTS music/cantorial library would have a fairly complete collection of 
     Rossi.  When we sung some fo his works in a choir, it was no big deal 
     to get the sheet music. 
     
     I hope this helps!
     
     Shana/Tova Gut Yohr.
     
     Rich W.


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Subject: Re: Salamone Rossi 
Author:  <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org> at Tcpgate
Date:    9/15/98 10:49 PM


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