Nicola Vicentino
Venetian School, Composer
1511 – 1576
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Who was Nicola Vicentino?
Nicola Vicentino was an Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most visionary musicians of the age, inventing, among other things, a microtonal keyboard, and devising a practical system of chromatic writing two hundred years before the rise of equal temperament.
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- Born
- 1511
Vicenza - Also known as
- Vicentino, Nicola
- Nationality
- Italy
- Profession
- Lived in
- Vicenza
- Died
- 1576
Rome
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on July 23, 2013
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