Biography
Bernardino Lupacchino, properly Bernardino Carnefresca detto Lupacchino dal Vasto, was a mid-sixteenth-century Italian priest-composer associated with Vasto and later with San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome.
His surviving profile is centred on Venetian print culture: four-voice madrigal books in the 1540s, the 1547 Gardano Il primo libro di madrigali a cinque voci, and the exceptionally durable two-voice collection with Giovanni Maria Tasso, known from later Venetian reprints including the 1559 Gardano and 1560 Scotto witnesses. His music also circulated in anthologies and manuscripts, with pieces such as “Al assalir” and “Perch’ al viso d’amor” preserved in British Library manuscript sources. Modern discography exists but is scattered: sacred works appear in the 2011 Opera omnia – Messe e Mottetti project, and two-voice/fantasia repertory appears on The Delightful Company.
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