About Pier Francesco Valentini
Lived 1570 – 1654 (aged 83–84). Pier Francesco Valentini was an Italian composer and musicologist.
Pietro Francesco Valentini (c.1570-1654) was an Italian nobleman, amateur composer and music theorist. He studied with G. B. Nanino. His tour de force on the art of the contrapuntal canon was Canone nel nodo Salomonis a 96-voice contrapuntal exercise which could be expanded to a symbolically significant 144,000 voices, singing at different speeds and in different metres. He also published more conventional madrigal and motet collections.
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Italian composer
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Pier Francesco Valentini was born in 1570 in Rome.
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Pier Francesco Valentini died in 1654 in Rome.
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Pier Francesco Valentini was a composer and musicologist.
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Pier Francesco Valentini was Italian.
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