Natale Montferrato (1603-1685)

[Carlo Gesualdo]

I purchased this today, thinking it was renaissance music, I was shock it was baroque, I know French & German were precocious in there baroque an always think Italian school of music was renaissance sounding during this period, this time span, this is odd don't you think or it's me, it's an almost forgiven composer apparently no tread for him so I started one here what Wikipedia say about him.

Natale Monferrato (1603–1685) was an Italian baroque composer. He was a pupil of Giovanni Rovetta, then was a singer at St Mark's Basilica in Venice, and then with the aid of Francesco Cavalli vicemaestro, or maestro di coro (1647–76). On 30 April 1676 he became director, after a competition with Giovanni Legrenzi, another of Rovetta's pupils, and Pietro Andrea Ziani.[1][2] He was earlier maestro at the Mendicanti.[3]

Following his death the junior post of maestro di coro fell to Giandomenico Partenio (1685–89), then Antonino Biffi (1699–1730).

Works, editions and recordings
Edition: Alma redemptoris mater 1962 - 10 pages
Edition: Natale Monferrato, Complete Masses, edited by Jonathan R. J. Drennan, Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, vol. 186 (Middleton, Wis.: A-R Editions, 2014)
Recording: Alma redemptoris mater; Psalm. Carolyn Watkinson, Gonzaga Band, Chandos Classics, 2011.