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Lodovico Grossi da Viadana
Italian composer
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (usually Lodovico Viadana, though his family name was Grossi; c.
1560 – 2 May 1627) was an Italian composer, teacher, and Franciscan friar of the Order of Friars Minor Observants. He was the first significant figure to make use of the newly developed technique of figured bass, one of the musical devices which was to define the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras in music.
Lodovico grossi da viadana biography of barack
Life
He was born in Viadana, a town in the province of Mantua (Italy). According to a document dating from about 150 years after his death, he was a member of the Grossi family but took the name of his birth city, Viadana, when he entered the order of the Minor Observants prior to 1588.
Though there is no contemporary evidence, it has been claimed that he studied with Costanzo Porta, becoming choirmaster at the cathedral in Mantua by 1594. In 1597 he went to Rome, and in 1602 he became choirmaster at the c