GIACOBBI, GIROLAMO. - Musician, born in Bologna in August 1567, died there in February 1630. In 1589 he was deputy director and in 1604 appointed director of the chapel of S. Petronio.
A convinced supporter of the new style, he hosted the Accademia dei Filomusi in his home (1622), composed melodramas after the example of the Florentine innovators, and set to music dramatic works by R. Campeggi, S. Branchi, and B. Marescotti; but of his theatrical music only the Aurora ingannata (intermezzi), published in Venice (1609) under the name Dramatodia, survives.
Among his numerous religious compositions, partly published and partly in manuscript in the Library of the Musical Lyceum of Bologna, are psalms for four voices (1615), motets for six voices (1601), litanies for eight voices (1618), hymns, vespers, Sanctissimae Deiparae canticum for four voices (1628), etc.