Johannes Ciconia
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Johannes Ciconia was an important Franco-Flemish composer and music theorist of trecento music during the late Medieval era. He was born in Liège, but worked most of his adult life in Italy, first in
Part from Ciconia's Merçé o morte
Squarcialupi Codex
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The Squarcialupi Codex is an illuminated manuscript compiled in Florence in the early fifteenth century. It is named for the noted fifteenth-century organist Antonio Squarcialupi, who owned it.
Johannes Ciconia
…compositions suggest that he was well known in Florence, his music is scarcely represented in major Florentine sources of the period; for instance, the Squarcialupi Codex contains nothing by Ciconia. But many of his motets and Mass movements are included in the manuscript known as "Bologna MS Museo Internazionale e…
Illustration showing Francesco Landini playing a portative organ