About Michele Pesenti
Lived 1470 – 1528 (aged 57–58). Michele Pesenti was an Italian composer, lutenist, priest and singer.
To be distinguished from the blind keyboard composer Martino Pesenti, (Venice, c. 1600 – c. 1648)
Michele Pesenti (Verona ca. 1470after 1524) was an Italian composer and lutenist who served the House of Este at Ferrara. Pesenti was one of the most lively and inventive of the so-called frottola composers, including Marchetto Cara and Bartolomeo Tromboncino.
Selected recordings "Ha' tu veduto un mio vitellin bianco" on La Favola di Orfeo 1494, reconstruction of a Florentine entertainment, by Huelgas Ensemble, dir. Paul Van Nevel. Seon. frottola: "Non mi doglio gia d'amore" on Banchetti Musicali a la Corte Estense. by La Bottega musicale Ferrarese. Bongiovanni GB 5001 (LP) 1985 frottola: "Dal lecto me levava" on Barzellette - Frottole Italiane del Cinquecento. by Retrover dir. Markus Tapio, Opus111 30-243 1998 villota: "Quando lo pomo vien da lo pomaro" on Cantar alla Pavana Canzoni, Frottole, Villotte e Madrigali dell'Apografo Miscellaneo Marciano (1526) (music from fragments in the Marciana Library, Venice) by Consort Veneto dir. Giovanni Toffano, Tactus 520002 "Alhor quando arivava" on Cigni, Capre, Galli e Grilli. by Fortuna Ensemble dir. Roberto Cascio, Tactus 460301 1998 instrumental: "Un cavalier di Spagna" on Musica dell'epoca di Cristoforo Colombo "Che faralla che diralla - Uscirallo, resterallo" on Luther in Rom by Concerto Romano dir. Alessandro Quarta, Christophorus Records CHR 77361 2012
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Who was Michele Pesenti?
Italian composer, priest, singer and lutenist of the Renaissance
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Michele Pesenti was born in 1470 in Verona.
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Michele Pesenti died in 1528 in Verona.
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Michele Pesenti was a composer, lutenist, priest and singer.
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Michele Pesenti was Italian.
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