Croce, Giovanni 01/01/1557 - 05/15/1609

Giovanni Croce (1557-1609) was an Italian composer. A pupil of Zarlino, he joined the choir of St Mark's, Venice, in 1565. He was a priest by 1585, and became vice maestro di capella at St Mark's in 1594 and full maestro di cappella in 1603. He was a prolific church composer (he published fifteen volumes) who in his late Cantilene adopted the concertato idiom, and a versatile madrigalist, contributing to the vogue for madrigal comedy in his Triaca Musicale.