Girolamo Cavazzoni
1510 — 1577
Girolamo (Hieronimo) Cavazzoni was an Italian organist and composer, son of Marco Antonio Cavazzoni. Little is known about his life except that he worked at Venice and Mantua, and published two collections of organ music. These collections only contain music written before about 1549, but are of high quality, and established the traditional form of imitative ricercars and canzonas.
Adapted from the Wikipedia article on Girolamo Cavazzoni.
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Girolamo Cavazzoni, a composer of the 16th century, holds a significant place in the history of organ music. He was an organist, possibly at Urbino, and is notably recognized as “the first to publish organ-canzone” in 1543, according to The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1924). His contributions to the organ repertoire include ricercari, canzoni, and hymns, alongside two Magnificats. These works were deemed important enough to be included in a 1903 volume of compositions for organ or harpsichord, dating from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, as noted in Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1904).