Lodovico Zacconi

Italian musicologist
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Born:
June 11, 1555, Pesaro, Papal States [Italy]
Died:
March 23, 1627, Firenzuola, near Pesaro (aged 71)

Lodovico Zacconi (born June 11, 1555, Pesaro, Papal States [Italy]—died March 23, 1627, Firenzuola, near Pesaro) was an Italian musicologist, last of a distinguished line of Renaissance writers on music. Zacconi became a priest, later an Augustinian, and studied music with Andrea Gabrieli in Venice, where he was musical director for his order. He went to Vienna in 1585 at the invitation of the archduke Charles. In 1592 he published the first part of his Prattica di musica, dedicated to William V, duke of Bavaria, whose service he had entered three years earlier. In 1596 he returned to Italy and ...(100 of 190 words)