Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder

Italian composer

Alfonso Ferrabosco (baptized 18 January 1543 – 12 August 1588) was an Italian composer. While mostly famous as the solitary Italian madrigalist working in England, and the one mainly responsible for the growth of the madrigal there, he also composed much sacred music. He also may have been a spy for Elizabeth I while he was in Italy.

His father, Domenico Ferrabosco, and son, Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger were also composers.

Read more about this composer on Wikipedia.

Works

The Long LineThe Long Line
  • 1st Tuning: Almaine
  • 1st Tuning: Coranto
  • 3rd Tuning: Almaine
  • 3rd Tuning: Coranto
  • 3rd Tuning: Galliard
  • Auprès de vous, C 81
  • Bruna sei tu, ma bella, C 122
  • Decantabat populus Israel
  • Dolci ire, C 140
  • Domine, non secundum peccata nostra, C 32
  • Fantasia a 4
  • Fantasia in G Final
  • Fantasie
  • I Saw My Lady Weeping
  • In Monte Oliveti
  • In detph no man remembreth Thee
  • In nomine I a 5
  • In nomine II a 5
  • In nomine III a 5
  • Incipit Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae II
  • Incipit lamentatio Jeremiæ Prophetae à 6
  • Judica me, Domine
  • Lamentations I
  • Pavan
  • Pavan 6
  • Pavan a 5
  • Peccantem me quotidie, C 52
  • Psalmus CIII “Benedic anima mea”
  • Psalmus CIII “Benedic anima mea”: Decima pars. Emittes spiritum tuum
  • Psalmus CIII “Benedic anima mea”: Nona pars. Draco iste
  • Psalmus CIII “Benedic anima mea”: Octava pars. Quam magnificata sunt
  • Psalmus CIII “Benedic anima mea”: Prima pars. Benedic anima mea
  • Psalmus CIII “Benedic anima mea”: Quarta pars. Qui emittis fontes
  • Psalmus CIII “Benedic anima mea”: Quinta pars. Rigans montes
  • Psalmus CIII “Benedic anima mea”: Secunda pars. Extendens caelum
  • Psalmus CIII “Benedic anima mea”: Septima pars. Posuisti tenebras
  • Psalmus CIII “Benedic anima mea”: Sexta pars. Saturabuntur ligna campi
  • Psalmus CIII “Benedic anima mea”: Tertia pars. Qui fundasti terram
  • Psalmus CIII “Benedic anima mea”: Undecima pars. Cantabo domino
  • Quel sepre acerbo, C 177
  • So, So, Leave Off This Last Lamenting Kiss
  • Sur la Rousée (Fantasia a 6)
  • Tell me, O love
  • Tu dolc' anima mia
  • Vocem meam audisti