Lute
... player of a lute is called a lutenist, lutanist or lutist and a maker of ... composer or perhaps belonging to some amateur lutenist who would copy in unpublished pieces, or ... in northern Italy. Orazio Gentileschi's young lutenist, painted ca 1626, plays a 10-course ... patterns were de rigueur, and a modern lutenist will occasionally be seen to retune one ... link to the website of the famed lutenist Hopkinson Smith containing downloads, schedule, biography, ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lute - 31k - Cached - Similar pages

Robert Johnson (composer)
... Life Son of John Johnson (who was lutenist to Elizabeth I), and lutenist at the court of James I, Robert ... during the Jacobean era, and became royal lutenist in the King’s "Private Musick" from 1604. He was later lutenist to Prince Henry (until his death in ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_(composer) - 4k - Cached - Similar pages

Bálint Bakfark
... as Valentin) was a Hungarian composer and lutenist of the Renaissance. He was enormously influential as a lutenist at the time, and renowned as a ... to Paris, but finding the position of lutenist to the king filled he went in ... where he was employed as a court lutenist by Sigismund Augustus II. From then until ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bálint_Bakfark - 4k - Cached - Similar pages

Sylvius Leopold Weiss
... 16, 1750) was a German composer and lutenist. Born in Breslau, the son of Johann Jacob Weiss , also a lutenist, he served at courts in Breslau, Rome ... hear from eyewitnesses that Weiss, the great lutenist, challenged J. S. Bach, the great harpsichordist ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvius_Leopold_Weiss - 2k - Cached - Similar pages

Diomedes Cato
... 1588, when he was hired as a lutenist by the court of King Sigismund III ... to Sweden, where his fame as a lutenist and composer was evidently large; as late ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diomedes_Cato - 7k - Cached - Similar pages

Jakub Polak
... and Jacques le Polonois) was a Polish lutenist and composer. Notable for his service as court lutenist to Henry III of Poland and France ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Polak - 1k - Cached - Similar pages

Vincenzo Capirola
... – after 1548) was an Italian composer, lutenist and nobleman of the Renaissance. His music ... possible that Capirola is the famous Brescian lutenist who visited the court of Henry VIII ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Capirola - 4k - Cached - Similar pages

Music history of Hungary
... in Europe in the 16th century. The lutenist and composer Bálint Bakfark was especially famous ... on vocal polyphony. Also important were the lutenist brothers, the Neusiedlers , and the author of ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_history_of_Hungary - 38k - Cached - Similar pages

Andreas Scholl
... also studied with soprano Evelyn Tubb and lutenist Anthony Rooley. As well as his Diploma ... include cemballist Markus Märkl and the virtuoso lutenist Edin Karamazov. Ensembles with whom he performs ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Scholl - 15k - Cached - Similar pages

Wojciech Długoraj
... Gostinensis, was a Polish Renaissance composer and lutenist. Born most probably in the town of ... first master, was so cruel that the lutenist fled his court. He found employment with ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojciech_Długoraj - 2k - Cached - Similar pages