Composers Biographies

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Andrea Antico
(Montona, Istria ca. 1470-80 ?)

He was the greatest Istrian musician and editor of the Renaissance. In the early years of the 1500's he moved ...

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Giorgio Mainerio
(Parma, 1535 – Aquileia, 1582)

Born in Parma, perhaps his father was Scottish (in fact, he signed his name as Mayner), he began his career ...

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Giovanni Domenico da Nola
(Nola ca.1510 – Naples 1592)

Born in Nola, near Naples, he became Choirmaster and Director of Music of the Church of the Holy Annunciation in ...

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Angelo Notari
(Padua 1566 – London 1663)

Born in Padua in 1566, after a period of schooling and employment in Venice, he moved to England at the ...

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Giuseppe Giamberti
(Rome, ca.1600 – ca. 1662)

He studied Giovanni Bernardino Nanino and Paolo Agostini, both active in Rome. The first was very influential as a teacher ...

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Vincenzo Calestani
(Lucca 1589 - ? ca. 1617)

Not much is known about his life, not even if he was related to Girolamo Calestani, another composer from Lucca ...

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Francesco Patavino
(Padua ca. 1478 – Loreto ca. 1556)

Born in Santa Croce (Padua) around 1478, he became a priest and cantor in the city's cathedral. Later he became ...

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Girolamo Frescobaldi
(Ferrara, 1583 – Rome, 1643)

Born in Ferrara in 1583, Frescobaldi moved to Rome at an early age, where he attended the Accademia di Santa ...

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Avraham Cáceres
XVIII century

Avraham Casseres (Caseres, Cáceres) was an important composer of Hebraic music who worked in the XVIII century in Holland. Probably ...

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Salomone Rossi
(Mantua, ca.1567-1628)

Salomone Rossi [name in hebrew: סלומונה רוסי] (Salamon, Schlomo; de' Rossi), "The Jew of Mantua", was a violinist and composer ...

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