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Born: 9 September
1583, Ferrara, Italy
Died: 1 March 1643, Rome, Italy
Frescobaldi, Girolamo
Among
the great organ
composers and players in music history, and
the man who liberated religious music from dependency in singing ,
to developed instrumental church music. His
fame rests on numerous fugues ,
toccatas![Toccata No. 3 - Frescobaldi](../play.gif)
and many partitas
for the organ, and he was the organist of
St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome .
As one of the most important keyboard composers of the beginning of the
baroque period, he advanced keyboard technique and exploited sophisticated
and daring modulations .
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He played
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He Lived in the
baroque
In
Italy
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