Music and Letters Advance Access originally published online on August 22, 2007
Music and Letters 2007 88(4):589-603; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm036
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Another Mass Attributable to Giovanni Rovetta
*Queen's University Belfast.
Correspondence: Email: jrjdrennan{at}lineone.net.
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This article examines the authorship of an a cappella mass for four voices, which survives in several sources and is presented under various names, including Roeton, Ruetton, and Natale Monferrato—maestro di cappella of S. Marco (Venice) during 1676–85. The true author is the Venetian Giovanni Rovetta (c.1596–1668), maestro Claudio Monteverdi's distinguished assistant (1627–44) and successor (1644–68) at S. Marco.