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Vincenzo Galilei (c. 1520 – July 2, 1591) was an Italian lutenist, composer, and music theorist, and the father of the famous astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei. He was a seminal figure in the musical life of the late Renaissance, and contributed significantly to the musical revolution which demarcates the beginning of the Baroque era. He was born around 1520 in Santa Maria a Monte (Tuscany), and began studying the lute at an early age. Sometime before 1562 he moved to Pisa, where he married into a noble family. In 1564 Galileo was born, the first of his either six...

MonsignorLorenzo Perosi (21 December 1872 - 12 October 1956) was an Italian composer of sacred music and the only member of the Giovane Scuola who did not write opera. Although less prominent today, he enjoyed international success and a great deal of fame, particularly but not only in Italy, in the late 1890s and early 1900s, chiefly because of his innovative oratorios. .

Vincenzo Zitello (see also his Vincenzo Zitello Trio) - composer, harpist, and concert artist - starts studying music at a very early age, playing the transverse flute and the violino,viola. The first person to spread and pioneer the Celtic harp in Italy, from 1976, he dedicates himself to his musical studies, taking part in Breton cultural and musical seminars held at the “Ti Kendalc'h” with Dominig Bouchaud and Mariannig Larc’hantec. In 1978 he forms the harp and oboe duet with Roberto Mazza. In 1980 he specialises in the bardic harp and Celtic singing with Alan Stivell. In 1985 he forms...

Domenico Cimarosa (17 décembre 1749 - 11 janvier 1801) est un compositeur italien, né à Aversa dans le royaume de Naples et décédé à Venise. Ses parents étaient pauvres (le père était maçon et la mère faisait des ménages), mais ils voulurent lui donner la meilleure instruction possible. Lorsqu'ils vinrent s'installer à Naples ils l'envoyèrent dans une école religieuse dépendant du monastère San Severo dei Patri Conventuali. Il y avait là un organiste, le père Polcano, qui, frappé par les dons musicaux et l'intelligence du jeune garçon, prend à cœur de lui apprendre les bases de la musique ainsi que...