Gherardello da Firenze

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Gherardello da Firenze

Gherardello da Firenze, Italian composer; b. c. 1322; d. Florence, 1362 or 1363. He lived in Florence, where he became a clerk in 1343 and a priest in 1344 at the Cathedral. He later served as prior at S. Remigo. His extant works, 2 mass movements, ballate, madrigals, and the celebrated caccia Tosto che I’alba del bel giorno appare, have been ed. by N. Pirrotta in The Music of Fourteenth-Century Italy, Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae, VIII/1 (1964).

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