Artusi. Giovanni Maria

ARTUSI. GIOVANNI MARIA. Italian composer and musical theorist, was born in Bologna, and died on the i8th of August 1613. He was canonico regutare at the church of San Salvatore in his native city. He is chiefly famous in the history of music for his attacks upon Monteverde (q.v.) embodied in his L'Artusi otero d. imp. (1600). For an exhaustive explanation and a translation of excerpts from these the studies of Dr G. Vogel and O. Riemann should be consulted. These will be found in the VierleJjakrsschrifl far Musikwisscnschaft, Leipzig, vol. 3, pp. 326, 380 and 426.