Girolamo Valmarana

Virtually nothing is known about Girolamo Valmarana, other than the fact that he was a member of the Accademia Olimpica of Vicenza in the mid-1580s, and that, according to one source, he composed music, now lost, for a “torneo a piedi” (a staged tourney on foot, as opposed to one on horseback) that was held at Carnival time in 1612. (Another version of the same source indicates that the composer was Leone Leoni.) It seems that Valmarana also published a book of five-voice madrigals, probably in the first decade of the 17th century.