Andrija Motovunjanin

Music publisher, printer, compiler, intabulator and composer from Istria, born around 1480 in Motovun / Montona, Republic of Venice (now in Croatia). Active between in Rome (1510-1518) and Venice (1520-1521, 1533-1539), as the earliest competitor of Venetian Ottaviano Petrucci, publishing initially secular music (frottole) before receiving exclusive rights to print organ tablature in the Papal States. Masses printed by him in the Liber quindecim missarum (Rome, 1516) were the first sacred music printed in Rome itself, while, after moving to Venice, his repertoire diversified. While it is suggested he collaborated with fellow Istrian Jacques Moderne between 1522 and 1532 in Lyon, France, but unconfirmed. His last known publication is a collection of motets by Adrian Willaert in 1539, after which he disappears from written history. A composer as well, two frottole he published in his Canzoni, strambotti, et frottole, libro tertio (1513) can be attributed to him, while 15 others, signed "A. de Antiquis (Venetus)", may or may not be attributed to him.