Draft:Simone Vesi
{{Short description|Italian Baroque composer}}
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{{AFC comment|1=I went through and did some cleanup, placed some notes. This seems to be a minor composer, probably notable enough for us, but there is a distinct lack of (clear) secondary sourcing. A Google Books search shows all kinds of (minor) hits ([https://books.google.com/books?id=q7EmDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA292&dq=Simone+Vesi&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjLyvWr4_WLAxXrSzABHawYOBQQ6AF6BAgEEAM#v=onepage&q=Simone%20Vesi&f=false], [https://books.google.com/books?id=qSXGOoambNcC&pg=PA96&dq=Simone+Vesi&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjLyvWr4_WLAxXrSzABHawYOBQQ6AF6BAgJEAM#v=onepage&q=Simone%20Vesi&f=false], [https://books.google.com/books?id=9dsHEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA146&dq=Simone+Vesi&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjLyvWr4_WLAxXrSzABHawYOBQQ6AF6BAgGEAM#v=onepage&q=Simone%20Vesi&f=false], [https://books.google.com/books?id=X4EIC2y8Hi8C&pg=PA75&dq=Simone+Vesi&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjLyvWr4_WLAxXrSzABHawYOBQQ6AF6BAgHEAM#v=onepage&q=Simone%20Vesi&f=false]), and there is probably more. The Eitner source seems very valid (no URL, so I can't see it) and would probably be solid enough if well-used for biographical and other details, but it isn't. I wonder if User:Gerda Arendt has any suggestions. Drmies (talk) 15:36, 6 March 2025 (UTC)}}
{{AFC comment|1=The majority of the article is unsupported by reliable sources. Flat Out (talk) 04:30, 25 January 2025 (UTC)}}
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Simon (or Simone) Vesi (c1610–after 1667) was an Italian composer and cleric in Padua. His surviving works are almost all settings of psalms, the Mass and other liturgical works.{{Cite book |title=New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians |publisher=Oxford University Press |year= |location=Oxford}}{{Volume needed}}{{Page needed}}
Biography
Simone Vesi was born in Forlì in northern Italy around 1610. His name is spelled in his printed editions variously as Simon, Simone or Simeone, and in one publication in the Latinate form Simone Vesius.
His first known appointment was as maestro di capella at the cathedral church of Forli, mentioned in the dedication to his Opus 3 motetti.{{Cite book |last=Vesi |first=Simon |title=Motetti a Voce Sola, Op. 3 |date=1652 |publisher=Francesco Magni |location=Venice |publication-date=1652 |page=2 |trans-title=Motets for Solo Voice}} Perhaps indicating a job application, his Opus 1 'Messi e salmi' of 1646 is dedicated to Carlo Rossetti, who had been consecrated bishop of Faenza three years earlier. Vesi entered Padua Cathedral in 1648 as a tenor{{Cite book |last=Eitner |first=Robert |title=Biographisch-bibliographisches quellen-lexikon der musiker und musikgelehrten der christlichen zeitrechnung bis zur mitte des neunzehnten jahrhunderts |date=1900 |publisher=Breitkopf & Haertel |location=Leipzig |volume=10 |page=69 |language=DE}} and spent the rest of his known career in Padua, where he was employed by Padua Cathedral first as a tenor and then as a chaplain. Vesi unsuccessfully applied to be Maestro di capella at the cathedral, but did take on additional duties running the private chapel of Giorgio Cornaro (cardinal), the bishop of Padua.
Vesi's music was included in two contemporary anthologies, the Sacra Corona of 1656 (published in Venice){{Cite book |last=Rismondo |first=Paulo Alberto |title=Sacra Corona (Venice, 1656) |date=2015 |publisher=A-R Editions |isbn=978-0-89579-805-3}} and the 1659 collection by Johannes Havemann of mostly Italian music entitled Geistlicher Concerten.{{Cite book |last=Havemann |first=Johannes |title=Erster Theil Geistlicher Concerten |date=1659 |publisher=Jena |location=Berlin}} Records indicate that Vesi's own publications were in libraries outside Italy during his own lifetime, and manuscript copies made by others exist in other collections including the Düben collection in Uppsala. Vesi was also mentioned alongside Monteverdi, Carissimi and other composers in the concertato style in Severo Bonini's treatise on contemporary music, the Discorsi e regole (1649-50){{Cite book |last=Bonini |first=Severo |title=Prima parte de' discorsi e regole sovra la musica |year=1649–1650}}.
He retired from his posts at Padua Cathedral in 1667. His date of death is unknown.
Music
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There were six publications of Vesi's music during his lifetime, of which five contain settings of liturgical texts. Each publication was produced by the prolific Venetian publishing house of Gardano. Most of his works are motets and settings of the Psalms for the service of Vespers.{{Cite web |title=RISM Online |url=https://rism.online/people/30014325 |access-date=2023-08-21 |website=rism.online}} The music ranges from settings for single voice with continuo to works for double choir, instruments (most commonly two violins) and organ (which includes basso continuo figures). His musical style is typical of Italian church music in the concertato style of the second half of the 17th-century, with alternating sections of solo recitative-like florid vocal writing and polyphonic or homophonic choral sections.
By contrast, his Opus 5 publication "Le Mascherate" is a sequence of seven madrigals with an introductory 'dialogue', dedicated to the Paduan music and instrument collector Andrea Mantova. The musical style is a departure from Vesi's liturgical music, with conversational dialogue between the different characters. The texts of the seven madrigals are by an unknown librettist, while the introductory dialogue borrows its text from an opera libretto by contemporary Venetian librettist, Pietr'Angelo Zaguri.
For his Opus 6 collection, Vesi uses mainly homophonic style, with no instruments other than organ continuo, and almost none of the virtuosi soloistic and ornamented writing that characterises his earlier music.
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- Missa e salmi for 6 voices, instruments and continuo [Op. 1]. (Venice, 1646)
- Motetti e salmi Op. 2 for solo voice, instruments and continuo (Venice, 1648)
- Motetti Op. 3 for solo voice and continuo (Venice, 1652)
- Salmi concertati Op. 4 for 3-6 voices, second chorus, instruments and continuo (Venice, 1656)
- Le Mascherate Op. 5 for 4 voices, 2 violins and continuo (Venice, 1660)
- Salmi ariosi Op 6. for 8 voices and continuo (Venice, 1663)
- Individual works by Vesi appear in other contemporary publications, and in the Düben collection of manuscript transcriptions held at Uppsala University{{Cite web |title=DCDC - Düben Collection Database Catalogue |url=https://www2.musik.uu.se/duben/Duben.php |access-date=2023-08-21 |website=www2.musik.uu.se}}
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