Francesco Landini
1325–1397
Organist
Composer
An Eminent Organist and Composer.
Francesco Landini (1325–1397) was the most renowned Italian composer of the fourteenth century. His fatherwas a painter and a member of Giotto's circle of artists in Florence. As the result of smallpox in his youth, Francesco was blind, an affliction that kept him from taking up the profession of his father but did not prevent him from pursuing a distinguished career as an organist, organ builder, singer, poet, and composer. He is described as poet, composer, and performer by Giovanni da Prato in his 1389 Il Paradiso degli Alberti: "He plays his love verses.....
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