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Vincenzo Galilei: Quick Facts

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Born c.1520 • Italy
Buried July 2, 1591 • Florence • Italy
Movement / Style Camerata
Subjects Of Study music • Greece
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Giulio Caccini
Italian composer
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Pelham Humfrey
English composer
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Robert Jones
English composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Portrait of Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa by Francesco Mancini, showing the composer in profile wearing a yellow embroidered coat and white cravat against a dark background.
Carlo Gesualdo, principe di Venosa, conte di Conza
Italian composer and lutenist
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Italian composer
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Italian composer
Giuseppe Tartini
Giuseppe Tartini
Italian musician
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Alfonso Ferrabosco, I
Italian composer
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Marco da Gagliano
Italian composer
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Emilio de’ Cavalieri
Italian composer
Weber, Carl Maria von
Carl Maria von Weber
German composer and musician
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer
Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz
German composer
Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer
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John Dowland
English musician
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Thomas Weelkes
English composer
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Orlando Gibbons
English composer
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Robert Johnson
English musician
Tovey
Sir Donald Francis Tovey
British pianist and composer