Alfonso dalla Viola

Person · Open Library

Born

approximately 1508

Died

approximately 1573

Works

1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Italy

Active from

1943-03-04

Active to

2012-03-01

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

26

Total plays

75

Alfonso dalla Viola (also della Viola) (c. 1508 – c. 1573) was an Italian composer and instrumentalist of the Renaissance. He was the principal composer at the Este court in Ferrara for about four decades in the middle sixteenth century, and was renowned as a player of several instruments, including the viola d'arco. While much of his incidental music, composed for court entertainments, is lost, several books of his madrigals have survived. His <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Alfonso+dalla+Vi

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Alfonso

Gender

male

Place of birth

Ferrara

Occupation

composer

Languages spoken

Italian

Image

Bemberg Fondation Toulouse - Portrait d'Alphonse dEste - Titien Inv.1053.jpg

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