Friday, August 18, 2023

August 18 - Francesco da Milano (The Musical Birthday Seires, 5th Annual Cycle)

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 Ĺ“uvre.-- 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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