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FRESCOBALDI, GIROLAMO (1583-1644)

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FRESCOBALDI, See also:GIROLAMO (1583-1644) , See also:Italian musical composer, was See also:born in 1583 at See also:Ferrara. Little is known of his See also:life except that he studied See also:music under Alessandro Milleville, and owed his first reputation to his beautiful See also:voice. He was organist at St See also:Peter's in See also:Rome from x6o8 to 1628. According to See also:Baini no less than 30,000 See also:people flocked to St Peter's on his first See also:appearance there. On the 20th of See also:November 1628 he went to live in See also:Florence, becoming organist to the See also:duke. From See also:December 1633 to See also:March 1643 he was again organist at St Peter's. But in the last See also:year of his life he was organist in the See also:parish See also:church of See also:San Lorenzo in See also:Monte. He died on the 2nd of March 1644, being buried at Rome in the Church of the Twelve Apostles. Frescobaldi also excelled as a teacher, Frohberger being the most distinguished of his pupils. Frescobaldi's compositions show the consummate See also:art of the See also:early Italian school, and his See also:works for the See also:organ more especially are full of the finest devices of fugal treatment. He also wrote numerous vocal compositions, such as See also:canzone, motets, See also:hymns, &c., a collection of madrigals for five voices (See also:Antwerp, 16o8) being among the earliest of his published works.

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