Claudio Merulo Claudio Merulo. Venetian School composer and organist, was most famous for his innovative keyboard music and polychoral style ensemble music. Born Claudio Merlotti in 1533, he Latinised his surname (meaning little blackbird) to Merulo; when he became...
Girolamo Diruta Girolamo Diruta. Venetian School composer, organist, music theorist; famous as a teacher and for his treatises on counterpoint and keyboard technique. His major work is a treatise in two parts on organ playing, counterpoint and composition; entitled Il...
Gioseffo Zarlino Gioseffo Zarlino. Venetian School composer and celebrated music theorist; contributed to the theory of musical tuning and counterpoint. In 1565, on the resignation of Cipriano de Rore, Zarlino took over the post of “maestro di cappella” of St....
Giovanni Croce Giovanni Croce. A Venetian School composer of both sacred and secular music; was particularly prominent as a madrigalist in Italy and abroad. As a composer of sacred music, his early work was mostly conservative in approach, but later developed a more...
Giovanni Bassano Giovanni Bassano. A “Venetian School” composer and cornetist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Born sometime between 1561-1563, he was a key figure in the development of the instrumental ensemble at St Mark’s Basilica,...
