Giovanni Antonio Rigatti’s psalms and motets for the monastic night service
Salmi diversi di compieta, Venice 1646
The Venetian Giovanni Antonio Rigatti sang as a boy in the choir of San Marco under Monteverdi’s direction. He received a solid education and was soon recognised as one of the most important composers in the lagoon city. His fame quickly spread northwards. Like the “divine Claudio” Monteverdi, Rigatti dedicated an important printed work, the “Messe e Salmi” from 1640, to Emperor Ferdinand III. Giovanni Antonio Rigatti’s works were even known in the remote Marienberg monastery in the Upper Vinschgau Valley in South Tyrol: His “Salmi diversi di Compieta”, i.e. settings of the chants for Compline, the night service in the monastery’s Liturgy of the Hours, are recorded there in a musical inventory from 1666. Complete settings of the texts for Compline, which are characterised by confidence and trust in God, are rare – and Rigatti’s psalms in the most contemporary concertante style bear witness to his mastery.
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