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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...

Vincenzo Zitello (vedi anche il suo Vincenzo Zitello Trio) compositore arpista concertista, polistrumentista, inizia giovanissimo lo studio della musica Studiando flauto traverso viola e violino. Primo divulgatore e pioniere dell'arpa celtica in Italia dal 1976 Ha studiato arpa celtica al “Ti Kendal’h” con Dominig Bouchaud. e Mariannig Larc’hantec. Nel 1980 si perfeziona con Alan Stivell in arpa bardica . Nel 1985 forma il duo “ASCIARA” con Saro Cosentino” e registra un 45 giri prodotto da Franco Battiato edito dalla EMI elaborando un brano tradizionale irlandese cantato in gaelico vincendo la “Vela D’Argento” a Riva Del Garda. Nel 1987 pubblica il...

Vincenzo Capirola (1474 – after 1548) was an Italian composer, lutenist and nobleman of the Renaissance. His music is preserved in an illuminated manuscript called the Capirola Lutebook, which is considered to be one of the most important sources of lute music of the early 16th century. He was probably from Brescia, and is known to have lived in that city for several periods of his life, although he was in Venice in 1517 and for some time after that, the period during which the illuminated manuscript was prepared. It is possible that Capirola is the famous Brescian lutenist who...