Another Murderer on The Early Music Show Saturday 12 March

[doversoul1]

Catherine Bott explores the scandalous life, and music of the Italian trombonist and composer Bartolomeo Tromboncino, who murdered his adulterous wife and her lover a century before the infamous musician Carlo Gesualdo did the same

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zddd8

Wikipedia tells us
Bartolomeo Tromboncino (c. 1470 – 1535 or later) was an Italian composer of the middle Renaissance. He is mainly famous as a composer of frottola

[french frank]

Looks like another one for the art and ethics thread!

[rauschwerk]

Wikipedia tells us
Bartolomeo Tromboncino (c. 1470 – 1535 or later) was an Italian composer of the middle Renaissance. He is mainly famous as a composer of frottola

Frottole, if you please!

[Cellini]

And here was me thinking you were going to say it was Bliar.

[MickyD]

If my memory serves me correctly, I think there was once a whole LP of Tromboncino Frottole by Anthony Rooley's Consort of Musicke on the admirable Florilegium series. Sadly it never made it to CD, but maybe Eloquence Australia will one day resolve that - they are digging up some valuable gems from the old Decca catalogue.

[Norfolk Born]

Catherine Bott explores the scandalous life, and music of the Italian trombonist and composer Bartolomeo Tromboncino, who murdered his adulterous wife and her lover a century before the infamous musician Carlo Gesualdo did the same

Perhaps the programme should be renamed The Midsomer Mediaeval Musical Murders Show.

[mercia]

are there other examples of people being named after the instrument they play, I wonder

Mr Tambourine Man

[Don Petter]

Washboard Sam?

[french frank]

are there other examples of people being named after the instrument they play, I wonder

Harpo Marx? More relevantly, according to Grove his father was called Bernardino Piffaro (shawm).

Edit: Tromboncino's father, I mean, not Harpo's

[Gordon]

If my memory serves me correctly, I think there was once a whole LP of Tromboncino Frottole by Anthony Rooley's Consort of Musicke on the admirable Florilegium series. Sadly it never made it to CD, but maybe Eloquence Australia will one day resolve that - they are digging up some valuable gems from the old Decca catalogue.

TROMBONCINO's sixteen Frottole were recorded on 16th-21st June 1980 at Decca's West Hampstead Studio 3 by the Consort of Musicke and Anthony Rooley (lute)

Released by L’OISEAU-LYRE in December 1981 as LP: DSLO593 and later as CD 421 960 2 in 1993 and excepts were issued in July 1994 on CD 443 200 2OM. If you are lucky you might find these second hand somewhere like Gramex near Waterloo.

[Norfolk Born]

are there other examples of people being named after the instrument they play, I wonder

Mr Tambourine Man

Donovan - The Hurdy Gurdy Man
Schubert - Der Leiermann (same instrument)
Johnny Cymbal - Mr Bass Man
Peter Sellers - The Trumpet Volunteer
Phil the Fluter('s Ball)
Gene Krupa - Drummer Man

[MickyD]

TROMBONCINO's sixteen Frottole were recorded on 16th-21st June 1980 at Decca's West Hampstead Studio 3 by the Consort of Musicke and Anthony Rooley (lute)

Released by L’OISEAU-LYRE in December 1981 as LP: DSLO593 and later as CD 421 960 2 in 1993 and excepts were issued in July 1994 on CD 443 200 2OM. If you are lucky you might find these second hand somewhere like Gramex near Waterloo.

Thank you very much for this, Gordon - I had no idea that the recording made it to CD. It could be quite a task to track it down, but I can live in hope! Ebay might also be the answer - sometime ago I really had given up on ever finding another long-deleted CD when I tried ebay and lo and behold, someone in Singapore came up with a copy! It certainly put an end to the trailing round secondhand record shops.

[3rd Viennese School]

Dallipiccolo

Obviously.

3VS