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Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi ( Italian: [dʒiˈrɔːlamo freskoˈbaldi]; also Gerolamo, Girolimo, and Geronimo Alissandro; September 1583 [n 1] – 1 March 1643) was an Italian composer and virtuoso keyboard player. [1] Born in the Duchy of Ferrara, he was one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and ...
Girolamo Frescobaldi (born September 1583, Ferrara, Papal States—died March 1, 1643, Rome) was an Italian organist and one of the first great masters of organ composition. He strongly influenced the German Baroque school through the work of his pupil J.J. Froberger.
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May 23, 2018 · Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) was an Italian composer, teacher, and organist. His keyboard works are the culmination in the development from the Renaissance keyboard style to that of the baroque era.
Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi was an Italian composer and virtuoso keyboard player. Born in the Duchy of Ferrara, he was one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods.
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Aug 26, 2013 · Frescobaldi was the first significant composer to write instrumental music almost exclusively. He invented a fertile and imaginative musical language for keyboard, best exemplified in his two books of Toccate (1615 and 1627, with substantial revisions in 1637).
Girolamo Frescobaldi (baptized mid-September 1583 in Ferrara – March 1, 1643 in Rome) was an Italian musician and one of the most important composers of keyboad instrumental music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque music periods.
The simplest is the discovery of new factual information. The most important of this material is contained in the two ceremonial diaries of Andrea Amici (d. 1642), a cleric of St. Peter’s, from which we can now reconstruct Frescobaldi’s activities as organist of the Cappella Giulia almost day by day.
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