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Alessandro Piccinini (1566 – 1638) was an Italian lutenist and composer. Piccinini was born in Bologna into a musical family: his father Leonardo Maria Piccinini taught lute playing to Alessandro as well as his brothers Girolamo (died 1615) and Filippo (died 1648).
A music platform, Gracenote, listed more than 2000 music genres (included by those created by ordinary music lovers, who are not involved within the music industry, these being said to be part of a 'folksonomy', i.e. a taxonomy created by non-experts).
Any late Italian Baroque music with a part labelled 'liuto' will mean 'arciliuto', the classic Renaissance lute being in disuse by this time. Among the most important composers of archlute music in the 17th century we can name Alessandro Piccinini, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (c. 1580 – 17 January 1651) and in the 18th century Giovanni Zamboni, whose set of 12 sonatas (1718, Lucca) for the ...
Alessandro Piccinini (1566–1638) Lucia Quinciani (born c. 1566; fl. 1611) Thomas Campion (1567–1620) ... List of classical music composers by era;
Alessandro Grandi (1586–1630) Gaetano Greco (c.1657 – c.1728) Lucio Gregoretti (born 1961) Giovanni Lorenzo Gregori (1663–1745) Giovanni Battista Grillo (late 16th century–1622) Niccolò Grillo (fl. 1720s) Carlo Grossi (c. 1634–1688) Gioseffo Guami (1542–1611) Emilia Gubitosi (1887–1972) Andrea Guerra (born 1961) Pietro Alessandro ...
This is a list of composers who wrote for lute and similar period instruments: theorbo, chitarrone, vihuela etc. Composers who worked outside of their country of origin are listed according to where they were most active, i.e. German-born Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger is listed under Italy.
The most prominent early composers and players in Italy were Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger and Alessandro Piccinini. Giuliano Paratico was another early Italian chitarrone player. Little solo music survives from England, but William Lawes and others used theorbos in chamber ensembles and opera orchestras.
Bernardo Storace, last bars of Passagagli sopra A la mi re and beginning of Passagagli sopra C sol fa ut, from Selva di varie compositioni (Venice, 1664). The passacaglia (/ p æ s ə ˈ k ɑː l i ə /; Italian: [passaˈkaʎʎa]) is a musical form that originated in early seventeenth-century Spain and is still used today by composers.