Francesco Landini
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Francesco Landini was a Florentine composer, poet, organist, singer and instrument maker, and a central figure of the music of the Trecento in the Italian peninsula.
Detail of Landini wearing a corona laurea while playing an organetto in an illustration from the 15th-century Squarcialupi Codex I-Fl 87, f. 121v.
Landini's tombstone with him shown playing a portative organ
Andreas de Florentia
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Andreas de Florentia was a Florentine composer and organist of the late medieval era. Along with Francesco Landini and Paolo da Firenze, he was a leading representative of the Italian ars nova style o
Francesco Landini
…Landini knew many of the other Italian composers of the Trecento, including Lorenzo da Firenze, with whom he was associated at Santa Trinità, as well as Andreas da Florentia, whom he knew in the 1370s. Around or shortly after 1375, Andreas hired him as a consultant to help build the organ at the Servite house in Florence…
Historiated initial in the Squarcialupi Codex, believed to portray Andreas