Canzon 10

Giovanni Paolo Cima (c. 1570 – 1630) was an Italian composer and organist in the early Baroque era. He was a contemporary of Claudio Monteverdi and Girolamo Frescobaldi, though not as well known (then or now) as either of those men. Cima came from a family of musicians and was a leading musical figure in Milan. From 1595 he served as director of music and organist at the chapel of Santa Maria presso San Celso in Milan. Cima's church music was generally conservative, but his instrumental works were more innovative. Cima died in Milan during the plague of 1630, at about the age of 60
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This uplifting Canzon I recorded, is from his collection Partito di ricercari & canzoni alla francese (1606). Recorded on the ever versatile sample set of the Metzler organ of Poblet.