13/02/14 09:36Uffererii, Giovanni Damasceni [Ufferer, Johann Damascenus; Aufreri, Offererius]

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Uffererii, Giovanni Damasceni [Ufferer,Johann Damascenus; Aufreri,Offererius](b ?Pesaro, fl early 17th century). Italian composer. Eitner's bibliographiesdistinguished between German and Italian composers with similar names, andsubsequent scholarship has tended to focus on his putative German composer‘Ufferer’. However, Beer has provided compelling evidence that the survivingcompositions probably all come from a single Italian composer from Pesaro. The lostpublication of sacred concertos may have acted as the source for his survivingmotets, 16 of which were published in a number of German anthologies between1613 and 1638, notably those compiled by Johann Donfrid. The works are fineexamples of the early concertato motet, embracing a wide range of vocal idiomsfamiliar from the motets of more celebrated north Italian composers of the period.Distinctive touches include the incorporation of the plainsong intonation for ‘Gloria inexcelsis Deo’ in Hodie nobis coelorum rex, and the bold harmonic progressions foundamidst the otherwise more conservative style of O quam suavis est Domine.WORKSall motets with basso continuo

Collection of sacred concs., 1–6vv (Venice, 1609), lost, cited by various, incl.Walther; Anima mea liquefacta est, 3vv, 16162; Coeli enarrant gloriam Dei, 6vv,16132; Confitemini Domino, 2vv, 16232; Factum est silentium, 4vv, 16271; FiliaeJerusalem venite, 2vv, 16232; Haec dies, 3vv, 16232; Hi sunt quos aliquando, 4vv,16162; Hodie nobis coelorum rex, 4vv, 16222; Jesu dulcis memoria, 5vv, 16462

(inc.); Jubilemus in arca Domini, 2vv, D-Dlb (inc.); Magnus Dominus noster, 4vv,16232; O quam suavis est Domine, 4vv, 16232; Pastores [Mariae] loquebantur, 2vv,16222; Repleatur os meum, 2vv, 16162; Repleatur os meum, 1v, 16385; Totapulchra es, 3vv, 16272; Voce mea ad Dominum, 2vv, 16222; Vulnerasti cor meum,3vv, 16272

BIBLIOGRAPHYEitnerQWaltherMLH.J. Moser: Die mehrstimmige Vertonung des Evangeliums, i (Leipzig, 1931/R), 39,

50W. Steude: Die Musiksammelhandschriften des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts in der

Sächsischen Landesbibliothek zu Dresden (Wilhelmshaven, 1974), 16, 158, 188–91

A. Beer: Die Annahme des “stile nuovo” in der katholischen KirchenmusikSüddeutschlands (Tutzing, 1989), 237–9

GEOFFREY WEBBER