Previous posts for August 18th are here: Antonio Salieri (2019), Benjamin Godard (2020), Antonio Salieri (2021), and Otto Harbach (2022)
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Francesco da Milano (18 August 1497 – 2 January 1543) was an Italian lutenist and composer heralded throughout Europe as the foremost lute composer of his time.
High Strung
Francesco's reputation today rests on his ricercars and fantasias, but
contemporaries apparently held his intabulations of vocal works by other
composers to be the best part of his œuvre.-- Wikipedia
Of all of those who played the lute,
Francesco da Milano was
Regarded as the most astute,
And this assessment was because
He had a knack for finding ways
Of playing polyphonic strands
From vocal music of those days
With just his lute and agile hands.
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