Francesco Spinacino
Illustration — First page of Spinacino's Intabolatura de lauto libro primo (1507) Francesco Spinacino (fl. 1507) was an Italian lutenist and composer. His surviving output comprises the first two volumes of Ottaviano Petrucci's influential series of lute music publications: Intabolatura de lauto libro primo and Intabolatura de lauto libro secondo (both 1507).
Francesco Spinacino
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- 1401 · Fossombrone.
- Died
- 1501 · Venice.
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- Republic of Venice
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- composer · lutenist
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- Italian
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Illustration — First page of Spinacino's Intabolatura de lauto libro primo (1507) Francesco Spinacino (fl. 1507) was an Italian lutenist and composer. His surviving output comprises the first two volumes of Ottaviano Petrucci's influential series of lute music publications: Intabolatura de lauto libro primo and Intabolatura de lauto libro secondo (both 1507).
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Born at Fossombrone in 1401, died in Venice in 1501.
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Francesco Spinacino died at Venice.
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- 1.Alessandro Marzo Magno, Bound in Venice: The Serene Republic and the Dawn of the Book, Europa éditions, 2013
- 2.Don Michael Randel, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, Harvard University Press, 1996, .
- 3.Gérard Garsi, La chronologie de l'histoire de la musique, Éditions Jean-Paul Gisserot, 1997, .
- 4.Hannu Annala, Heiki Mätlik, Handbook of Guitar and Lute Composers, Mel Bay Publications, 2010, .
- 5.Matthew Spring, The Lute in Britain: A History of the Instrument and Its Music, Oxford University Press, 2001, .
- 6.Keith Polk, German Instrumental Music of the Late Middle Ages: players, patrons and performance practice, Cambridge University Press, 1992, .
- 7.Encyclopédie Treccani
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