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Michelangelo Rossi
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 17th cent.
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Andantino
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Italy
- Active from
- 1602
- Active to
- 1656
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Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,150
- Total plays
- 8,609
Tags
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Michelangelo Rossi (Michel Angelo del Violino) (ca. 1601/1602 – 1656) was an important Italian composer, violinist and organist of the Baroque era. Rossi was born in Genova, where he studied with his uncle, Lelio Rossi (1601-1638), at the Cathedral of San Lorenzo. Around the year 1624 he moved to Rome to enter the services of Cardinal Maurizio of Savoy. It was there that he met the madrigal composer Sigismondo d'India as well as the keyboard composer Girolamo Frescobaldi, with whom he may have
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michael
- Family name
- Rossi
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Genoa
- Place of death
- Rome
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Genre
- opera
- Movement
- Baroque music
- Instrument
- organ
Show 4 more facts
- date of birth
- 1601-01-01
- date of death
- 1656-07-07
- pseudonym
- Michel Angelo del Violino
- Commons category
- Michelangelo Rossi
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