Staffarda is a small village near Saluzzo (Northern Italy). The manuscript named after this village was probably in the possession of a certain Brixianus Taparelli, who was abbot at the Abbazia di Santa Maria in Staffarda in the second half of the sixteenth century and who was to take the manuscript to the library of this Cistercian monastery. to have. The abbey was looted several times over the
… following centuries, but the manuscript has been preserved and eventually ended up in the library of Duke Carlo Emmanuelle I of Savoy. In 1723 it moved to the library of the Royal University of Turin. The manuscript was compiled in the 15th and early 16th centuries and contains forty-eight compositions. The composer of only nineteen of these works is outdated. One of these composers is Engarandus Juvenis, of whom nothing else is known and who would have been forgotten were it not for the fact that a mass of the dead, a Missa pro defunctis, was handed down by Staffarda's codex. This mass is of historical importance because it contains one of the first polyphonic settings of the famous Dies Irae text. The requiem can be heard on CD in a performance by the vocal ensemble Daltrocanto conducted by Dario Tabbia. On the same CD one can hear another work from Staffarda's handwriting: the mass A l'ombre d'ung buissonet by the composer Antoine Brumel. This mass is based on a three-part song by Josquin Desprez of the same name. (CP) _ has been handed down from his hand. This mass is of historical importance because it contains one of the first polyphonic settings of the famous Dies Irae text. The requiem can be heard on CD in a performance by the vocal ensemble Daltrocanto conducted by Dario Tabbia. On the same CD one can hear another work from Staffarda's handwriting: the mass A l'ombre d'ung buissonet by the composer Antoine Brumel. This mass is based on a three-part song by Josquin Desprez of the same name. (CP) _ has been handed down from his hand. This mass is of historical importance because it contains one of the first polyphonic settings of the famous Dies Irae text. The requiem can be heard on CD in a performance by the vocal ensemble Daltrocanto conducted by Dario Tabbia. On the same CD one can hear another work from Staffarda's handwriting: the mass A l'ombre d'ung buissonet by the composer Antoine Brumel. This mass is based on a three-part song by Josquin Desprez of the same name. (CP) _ the mass A l'ombre d'ung buissonet by the composer Antoine Brumel. This mass is based on a three-part song by Josquin Desprez of the same name. (CP) _ the mass A l'ombre d'ung buissonet by the composer Antoine Brumel. This mass is based on a three-part song by Josquin Desprez of the same name. (CP) _more
