Diomedes Cato

Composer

1560 – 1600

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Who was Diomedes Cato?

Diomedes Cato was an Italian-born composer and lute player, who lived and worked entirely in Poland. He is known mainly for his instrumental music. He mixed the style of the late Renaissance with the emerging Baroque, and also Italian idioms with Polish folk material; and in addition he was one of the first native-born Italian composers to visit Sweden.

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Born
1560
Treviso
Also known as
  • Като, Диомед
Nationality
  • Italy
Died
1600

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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