Biography: Beltrame Feragut, Ben Franklin, Ben Jackson, Ben Johnson, Benedetto Ferrari, Benedetto Marcello, Benedetto Pallavicino, Benedetto Sanseverino, Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos, Bénigne de Bacilly,

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Beltrame Feragut Biography, Photos, Pictures

”Excelsa civitas Vincenza” was composed for the arrival of the Bishop into the city of Vicenza Feragut was a Master of the Chapel in Milan and then he may have travelled to Ferrara

Ben Franklin Biography, Photos, Pictures

As a printer Franklin helped produce three hymn books including “Gottliche Liebes und Lobes Gethone,” “Vorspiel der Neuen Welt” and “Jacobs Kampff und Ritter-Platz”

This member of the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra should not be confused with the heavy metal guitarist of the same name ~ Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide

Robert Johnson was a priest in Scotland and fled to England due to an accusation of heresy, the heresy of Lutheranism Johnson was in York in 1530, Scotland again and a final return to England in 1535

Benedetto Ferrari Biography, Photos, Pictures

Librettist, composer, and instrumentalist who played the theorbo Ferrari was considered an exceptional, perhaps virtuostic, theorbo performer He composed the first opera to which the paying Italian public was allowed to attend, “Andromeda”

Benedetto Marcello Biography, Photos, Pictures

Like his brother Alessandro, Benedetto learned the violin from his father and also studied singing and counterpoint with Gasparini Though he wanted to pursue music his father would not allow this distraction

Benedetto Pallavicino Biography, Photos, Pictures

Benedetto Pallavicino composed ten books of madrigals as well as a number of masses and motets As an Italian composer he served well as a prolific composer and as an organist in Cremona and then at Sabbioneta

Benedetto Sanseverino Biography, Photos, Pictures

This Italian guitarist wrote a method for playing the five course guitar with a suggested tuning of g/G-c’/c-f/f-a/a-d’ “Intavolatura facile della passacalli” included compositions for the Baroque guitar

Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos Biography, Photos, Pictures

Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos
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The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos became famous outside of religious circles in the mid-’90s when a recording of their liturgical Gregorian chants unexpectedly climbed to the top of U

Bénigne de Bacilly Biography, Photos, Pictures

Bacilly’s most important contribution to music was not his compositions (sacred and secular songs — or life songs) but his discourse entitled “Remarques curieuses sur l’art de bien chanter” (Remarks concerning the art of good singing)

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