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Michelangelo Amadei
italian17th century
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Michelangelo Amadei (*11. Dec. 1586 in Cortona, †12. March 1642) was an Italian composer. In the preface dedicating his first book of motets to Filippo Bardi, Bishop of Cortona, he states that he was a student of G.B.Nanino (»etiam magis debeo praeceptori meo Io. Bernardino Nanino, cuius institutis excultus didici, non tam voces ad numerum accomodare quam labores, si qui sunt, et industriam meam ad tuum plane nutum moderari, quod non antea impetrare potui, quam ille ex sua me disciplina dimiserit«). However, he is not mentioned among the pueri of S. Luigi dei Francesi in Rome. On August 27, 1606, before he was twenty, he was called to the cathedral of his hometown. He retained the office of maestro di capella and a canon at the collegiate church of S. Maria Novella until his death. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.