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Lorenzo Allegri (1567 – 1648) was an Italian composer, who worked at the Medici court, in Florence. [1] He was mainly known as a lutenist, and for lute he wrote dances, sometimes with vocal parts.
Orazio Gentileschi's young lutenist, painted c. 1626, plays a 10-course lute, typical of the time from around 1600 through the 1630s Lutes were in widespread use in Europe at least since the 13th century, and documents mention numerous early performers and composers.
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Jakob Lindberg (born 16 October 1952) [1] is a Swedish lutenist, performing solo, in small and large ensembles, and also directing operas, using instruments of the lute and guitar families. [2] He is known for the first ever recording of the Complete Solo Lute Music of John Dowland [ 3 ] as well as for recording music never before recorded ...
Robert Johnson (c. 1583 – 1633) was an English composer and lutenist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean eras. He is sometimes called "Robert Johnson II" to distinguish him from an earlier Scottish composer. [citation needed] Johnson worked with William Shakespeare providing music for some of his later plays.
John Wilson (5 April 1595 – 22 February 1674) was an English composer, lutenist and teacher. Born in Faversham, Kent, he moved to London by 1614, where he succeeded Robert Johnson as principal composer for the King's Men, and entered the King's Musick in 1635 as a lutenist.
Ernst Gottlieb Baron or Ernst Theofil Baron (17 February 1696 – 12 April 1760), was a German lutenist, composer and writer on music. Baron was born in Breslau into the family of Michael Baron, a maker of gold lace who expected his son to follow in his footsteps. Baron showed an inclination to music from an early age, and later made it his ...
Gaultier hailed from Orléans where he was christened probably on 30 August 1599 in the church of Saint-Michel. Active in Italy in the early 1630s, he probably made the acquaintance of his future patron, prince Johann Anton I of Eggenberg (1610–1649), then ambassador of the emperor Ferdinand III to Pope Urban VIII in Rome in 1638.