Caimo
Caimo is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Angelo Caimo (1914–1998), Italian footballer *Gioseppe Caimo Gioseppe Caimo (also Giuseppe) (c. 1545 – between September 6, 1584 and October 31, 1584) was an Italian composer and organist of the Renaissance, mainly active in Milan. He was a prolific composer of madrigals and other secular vocal musi ... ( 1545–1584), Italian Renaissance composer and organist {{surname Italian-language surnames ...
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Gioseppe Caimo
Gioseppe Caimo (also Giuseppe) (c. 1545 – between September 6, 1584 and October 31, 1584) was an Italian composer and organist of the Renaissance, mainly active in Milan. He was a prolific composer of madrigals and other secular vocal music, and was one of the most prominent musicians in Milan in the 1570s and early 1580s. Life He was born in Milan. No biographical details about his early life are known, but he was evidently a precocious composer, for his first publication was a book of four voice madrigals in 1564, written when he was probably in his late teens, and one of his compositions was probably performed for Emperor Maximilian when he was in Milan in 1563. This piece, ''Alli figliuoli del Sereniss. Re Massimigliano d'Austria Eccelsa e generosa prole degna'', No. 5 in his 1564 publication, is taken by Alfred Einstein as evidence he was already renowned in his home city at this young age. Einstein called it "a fine, sonorous music to be played in the open." Ca ...
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