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Lute music
Katarzyna Milek Bellerofonte Castaldi Un bocconcino di fantasia
Bellerofonte Castaldi (Modena, c.1581 – Modena, 27 September 1649) was an Italian composer, poet and lutenist. His tabulatures are more complex than for example Kapsberger. Castaldi wrote male parts in his songs for tenors as he was opposed to the practice of castrati or male falsettists singing female parts in cantatas. In the preface to his collection, Primo mazzetto he writes that it is "laughable that a man with the voice of a woman should set about proposing to his mistress"
Katarzyna Milek Charles Bocquet Praeludium
Charles Bocquet - French lutenist, active between 1594 and 1606.
Son of Julian Bocquet and a valet on the Henry the 3rd's court. On the Lorraine Princes' court in Pont-a-Mousson he cooperated in mounting ballet performances during carnival.
His lute pieces was published in two antologies: Thesaurus harmonicus (Cologne, 1603) and Testudo Gallo-Germanica (Nuremberg, 1615). His another pieces survived as manuscripts.
He was very famous, especially in Germany.
Katrzyna Milek Robert Ballard Le Angelique
Robert Ballard (ca. 1572 or 1575, probably in Paris – after 1650) was a prominent French lutenist and composer. His father, Robert Ballard Senior (ca. 1527-1588) was the head of the well-known music publishers, "Le Roy and Ballard", founded in 1551 with cousin Adrian Le Roy (a notable virtuoso lutenist and composer of the period).
From 1612 he entered the service of the French Regent, Maria de Medici, and was tutor to the young King Louis XIII, becoming a lutenist and composer (musicien ordinaire du roi) at the royal court in 1618. He published two books of lute works - Premier Livre de tablature de luth (1611) and Diverses Pieces mises sur le luth (1614).
Katarzyna Milek Lute Branle de St Nicolas
Jakub Polak (c. 1545 - c. 1605; also known as Jakub Reys and Jacques le Polonois) was a Polish lutenist and composer. Notable for his service as court lutenist to Henry III of Poland and France.
Initially one of the court musicians of Kraków, after Henry III fled Poland he joined him in Paris in 1574. He was an author of several lute compositions, most notably preludies, fantasies, dances and several chansons. During his lifetime he was renowned for his lute improvisations.
Katarzyna Milek Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger Arpeggiata
Johann(es) Hieronymus Kapsberger (also: Giovanni Girolamo or Giovanni Geronimo Kapsperger), (c. 1580 – 17 January 1651) was a German-Italian virtuoso performer and composer of the early Baroque period. A prolific and highly original composer, Kapsberger is chiefly remembered today for his lute, theorbo and chitarrone music, which was seminal in the development of these as solo instruments.
Katarzyna Milek Bellerofonte Castaldi La Follia
Bellerofonte Castaldi (Modena, c.1581 – Modena, 27 September 1649) was an Italian composer, poet and lutenist. His tabulatures are more complex than for example Kapsberger. Castaldi wrote male parts in his songs for tenors as he was opposed to the practice of castrati or male falsettists singing female parts in cantatas. In the preface to his collection, Primo mazzetto he writes that it is "laughable that a man with the voice of a woman should set about proposing to his mistress"