Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus
490?-583?
Roman writer, statesman, and monk who established monasteries and encouraged the duplication of ancient texts by monastic scribes, thus ensuring the preservation of Roman culture as well as Greek, Christian, and pagan works that might have perished.
He authored several of his own works, including a treatise on early Church music is still studied by scholars of ecclesiastical music and ancient musical instruments.
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