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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
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
He Lived in the
baroque
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