Bartolomeo degli Organi (Baccio Fiorentino)
Bartolomeo degli Organi (Baccio Fiorentino)
Bartolomeo degli Organi (Baccio Fiorentino), Italian organist and composer; b. Florence, Dec. 24, 1474; d. there, Dec. 12, 1539. At the age of 13 he became a singer at Ss. Annunziata in Florence. He subsequently served as organist at several Florentine churches, and also was a singer in the service of Lorenzo de’ Medici, Duke of Urbino. In 1509 he was appointed principal organist at the Cathedral in Florence. Among his extant compositions are ten Italian secular pieces and several instrumental works. See F. D’Accone, ed., Music of the Florentine Renaissance, in Corpus Mensura-bilis Musicae, XXXII/2 (1967).
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