Ferrabosco

Last updated March 31, 2019

Ferrabosco is the name of several musicians and composers, all from a family originating in Bologna:

Bologna is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna Region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy, at the heart of a metropolitan area of about one million people.

Domenico Ferrabosco (1513–1574), Italian composer and singer
Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder (1543–1588), Italian composer mainly active in England, and instrumental in bringing the Italian madrigal there; eldest son of Domenico Ferrabosco
Matthia Ferrabosco (1550–1616), Italian singer and composer
Constantino Ferrabosco (late 16th century), Italian composer, probably the brother of Matthia
Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger (1575–1628), English composer, son of Alfonso the elder, also a singer, and performer on the lute and viol
Alfonso Ferrabosco III (junior) (died 1652), an English composer and court musician, son of Ferrabosco the younger
Henry Ferrabosco (died 1658?), a court musician before and during the First English Civil War, son of Ferrabosco the younger
John Ferrabosco (1626–1682), English organist and composer, youngest son of Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger

Domenico Maria Ferrabosco (Ferabosco) was an Italian composer and singer of the Renaissance, and the eldest musician in a large prominent family from Bologna. He spent his career both in Bologna and Rome. His surviving music is all vocal, consisting of madrigals and motets, although he is principally known for his madrigals, which musicologist Alfred Einstein compared favorably to those of his renowned contemporary Cipriano de Rore.

Alfonso Ferrabosco 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.

Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger was an English composer and viol player of Italian descent. He straddles the line between the Renaissance and Baroque eras.

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