Katarzyna Milek lute player
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"
