Andreas de Silva {Leo X}
Earliest reference, motu proprio of January 1519 ; in the lists of the musici segreti , January 1519 -December 1520; in Mantua in December 1522.
The motu proprio of January 1519 states that de Silva has "recently" entered the chapel, but he probably was active in Rome as papal composer (his other designation) much earlier, as his motet Gaude felix Florentia , written to celebrate the election of Leo X in March 1513 demonstrates.
WORKS IN VAT MSS (all edited in KIRSCH)
Masses: Missa Adieu mes amours (VatS 45); Missa Tu es pastor ovium (VatS 55)
Motets: Ave Regina coelorum (VatS 46); Crux, clavis coronae spinarum (VatS 38); Gaude felix ecclesia (=Gaude felix Florentia) (VatS 38); In te Domine speravi (VatS 38); Laetatus sum (VatS 46); Omnis pulchritudo Domini (VatS 24); Surrexit pastor bonus (VatS 24)
EDITION: KIRSCH, Winfried. Andreas de Silva Opera Omnia. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 49 (Amierican Institute of Musicology, 1970-77)
DOCUMENTS
RAS, Camerale I, 859bis
37r: motu proprio dated January 1519
Andree de Silvis
Motu proprio etc. Dilecto filio Jacobo Ponzetto thesaurario nostro generali presentes committemus et mandamus quatenus statim visi presentibus dilecto filio nostro Andree de Silva cappelle nostre cantori et compositori nostro nuper in eadem capella nostra per nos admisso et recepto octo ducatos auri in auro camere pro presentes mensis januarii 1519 salario et alias continuando singulis aliis mensibus et futuris temporibus simile salarium octo ducatos per cantores capellanos nostre dicte capelle percipi solitum eidem Andree tantis per eum in curia residebit et alias ipso a nobis et curia nostra absente et in quorumcumque loco quem duxerit admorandum et inhabitandum eligere residentiam trahente procuratori suo legitimo realiter et cum effectu solvatis et de eodem satisfaciatis seu solui et satisfieri eidem Andree vel procuratori predicto faciatis constitutionibus et ordinationibus apostolicis et dicte nostre capelle statutis per nos forte confirmatis et approbnatis videliet quod nullus absens salarium percipere et levare debeat eius absentia durante ceterisque in contrarium faciendis non obstantibus quibuscumque.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY: FREY (1955): 61, 412-413; KIRSCH, Winfried. Die Motetten des Andreas de Silva (Tutzing, 1977); SHERR, Richard. "The Medici Coat of Arms in a Motet for Leo X." Early Music 15 (1987): 31-35.