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Jan Dismas Zelenka, Czech viol player and composer (died 1745)

Jan Dismas Zelenka

Czech composer (1679–1745)

Jan Dismas Zelenka, baptised Jan Lukáš Zelenka was a Bohemian composer and musician of the Baroque period. His music is admired for its harmonic inventiveness and mastery of counterpoint.
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Viol

Bowed, fretted and stringed instrument

The viola da gamba, or viol, or informally gamba, is a bowed and fretted string instrument that is played da gamba. It is distinct from the later violin, or viola da braccio; and it is any one of the earlier viol family of bowed, fretted, and stringed instruments with hollow…
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