Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer and educator (born 1560)

Lodovico Grossi da Viadana

Italian composer (c.1560–1627)

Lodovico Grossi da Viadana was an Italian composer, teacher, and Franciscan friar of the Order of Friars Minor Observants. He was the first significant figure to make use of the newly developed technique of figured bass, one of the musical devices which was to define the end of…