Netherlandish madrigalist Giaches de Wert (1535-96) spent much of his life in Italy, initially as choirboy to the Marchesa of Padulla (Salerno);he and was later court musician to counts of Nobellara, and the maestro di cappella at the court church of Santa Barbara at Mantua. It was here in this last that Duke Guglielmo Gonzaga made him maestro of the private chapel in recognition of de Wert's ten-failing health. de Wert had a difficult life. He …
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