Francesco Landini
Francesco Landini or Landino (around 1325 - 1397) was a Florentine organist and composer. He was one of the most famous and revered composers of his day.
Blind from childhood (an effect of contracting smallpox), Landini became one of the foremost exponents of the ars nova style. He was a highly regarded organist and played a number of other instruments, including the lute and guitar. He lived most of his life in Florence, and died there.
Landini's works include a large number of ballate and a smaller number of madrigals. He is assumed to have written his own texts for many of his works.
Landini is the eponym of the Landini cadence (or Landino sixth), a cadential formula whereby the sixth degree of the scale (the submediant) is inserted between the leading note and its resolution on the tonic.
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Ballata | Ballate | List of classical composers | List of classical music composers | List of people by name: La | Mediaeval music | Medieval European Music | Medieval Music | Trecento-Madrigal
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