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Vincenzo Galilei

1520 - 1591

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Vincenzo Galilei (3 April 1520 – 2 July 1591) was an Italian lutenist, composer, and music theorist. His children included the astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei and the lute virtuoso and composer Michelagnolo Galilei. Vincenzo was a figure in the musical life of the late Renaissance and contributed significantly to the musical revolution that demarcates the beginning of the Baroque era. In his study of pitch and string tension, Galilei produced perhaps the first non-linear mathematical description of a natural phenomenon known to history. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vincenzo Galilei is the 185th most popular composer (down from 156th in 2019), the 902nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 752nd in 2019) and the 37th most popular Italian Composer.

Galileo was most famous for his work with the telescope. He was the first person to use a telescope to study the stars and planets.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Vincenzo Galilei ranks 185 out of 1,451. Before him are Siegfried Wagner, Gustav Holst, Philip Glass, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Michael Haydn, and Baldassare Galuppi. After him are Reinhold Glière, Louis Spohr, Ferruccio Busoni, Amilcare Ponchielli, Johann Adolph Hasse, and Giovanni Bononcini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1520, Vincenzo Galilei ranks 7. Before him are Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Pope Sixtus V, Sigismund II Augustus, Madeleine of Valois, Barbara Radziwiłł, and Alessandro Farnese. After him are Christophe Plantin, Koca Sinan Pasha, Matthias Flacius, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Thoinot Arbeau, and Pontus De la Gardie. Among people deceased in 1591, Vincenzo Galilei ranks 5. Before him are Pope Gregory XIV, Pope Innocent IX, John of the Cross, and Aloysius Gonzaga. After him are Sen no Rikyū, Dmitry of Uglich, Jacobus Gallus, Veronica Franco, Christian I, Elector of Saxony, Luis de León, and Jost Amman.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Vincenzo Galilei ranks 902 out of 5,161. Before him are Ladislaus of Naples (1377), Quirinius (-45), Lodovico Ferrari (1522), Silas (1), Gentile da Fabriano (1370), and Baldassare Galuppi (1706). After him are Claudia Mori (1944), Julia Minor (-101), Mario Beccaria (1920), Orazio Gentileschi (1563), Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609), and Pietro Pomponazzi (1462).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Vincenzo Galilei ranks 37. Before him are Ottorino Respighi (1879), Gian Carlo Menotti (1911), Luciano Berio (1925), Giuseppe Torelli (1658), Francesco Cavalli (1602), and Baldassare Galuppi (1706). After him are Ferruccio Busoni (1866), Amilcare Ponchielli (1834), Giovanni Bononcini (1670), Niccolò Piccinni (1728), Luigi Nono (1924), and Vittorio Monti (1868).

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