:''To be distinguished from the blind keyboard composer Martino Pesenti, (Venice, c. 1600 – c. 1648)'' Michele Pesenti (

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ca. 1470after 1524) was an Italian composer and lutenist who served the

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. Pesenti was one of the most lively and inventive of the so-called ''

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'' composers, including

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and Bartolomeo Tromboncino.

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, Elena Povoledo Music and theatre from Poliziano to Monteverdi 1982 p31

Selected recordings

* "Ha' tu veduto un mio vitellin bianco" on ''La Favola di Orfeo'' 1494, reconstruction of a Florentine entertainment, by

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, dir.

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. Seon. *

: "Non mi doglio gia d'amore" on ''Banchetti Musicali a la Corte Estense''. by La Bottega musicale Ferrarese. Bongiovanni GB 5001 (LP) 1985 *

: "Dal lecto me levava" on ''Barzellette - Frottole Italiane del Cinquecento.'' by Retrover dir. Markus Tapio, Opus111 30-243 1998 * villota: "Quando lo pomo vien da lo pomaro" on ''Cantar alla Pavana Canzoni, Frottole, Villotte e Madrigali dell'Apografo Miscellaneo Marciano (1526)'' (music from fragments in the Marciana Library, Venice) by Consort Veneto dir. Giovanni Toffano, Tactus 520002 * "Alhor quando arivava" on ''Cigni, Capre, Galli e Grilli.'' by Fortuna Ensemble dir. Roberto Cascio, Tactus 460301 1998 * instrumental: "Un cavalier di Spagna" on Musica dell'epoca di Cristoforo Colombo * "Che faralla che diralla - Uscirallo, resterallo" on ''Luther in Rom'' by Concerto Romano dir. Alessandro Quarta, Christophorus Records CHR 77361 2012

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pesenti, Michele 1470s births 16th-century deaths Italian classical composers Italian male classical composers Renaissance composers