Leoni succeeded
Giammateo Asola, his master, as maestro di capella when Asola returned to
Venice; he contributed to the anthology Psalmodia vespertina dedicated to
Palestrina by Asola and published at Venice.[4] Several books of his motets were printed under the title Sacri fiori ("Sacred flowers") at Venice, and reprinted.[5] He was received as a member by the
Accademia Olimpica, Vicenza, some time between 1609 and 1612.[6] He died at Vicenza. A pupil is likely to have been
Ludovico Balbi.[7]
Notes
^His fellow pupil of
Asola's, D. Amedeo Freddi, succeeded him as maestro di cappella in 1627. (Donald M. Fouse, Giammateo Asola: Sixteen Liturgical Works [1964] p. viii).
^Henry Joseph Wing, The Polychoral Motets of Balbi and Leone Leoni
^Eric Blom, ed. Everyman's Dictionary of Music, rev. ed. 1954, s.v. "Leoni, Leone"; Oxford Dictionary of Music, s'v. "Leoni, Leone".
^Primo Libro 1606; Secondo Libro 1612, dedicated to Cardinal Madrucci, principe di Trento; Quarto Libro, 1622, dedicated to his pupil, Sister Alba Tressina in the convent of Araceli, Vicenza (G. Gaspari, ed. Catalogo della biblioteca del Liceo musicale di Bologna, vol. II (1892) s.v. "Leoni, Leone")
^According to the title pages of his Sacri fiori, 1609, and his Sacri fiori, Secondo libro, 1612, when the ascription Accademico Olimpico first appears (Catalogo della biblioteca del Liceo musicale di Bologna).
^New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, s.v. "Balbi, Ludovico".