Michelangelo Rossi
1601 — 1656
Michelangelo Rossi (Michel Angelo del Violino) (ca. 1601/1602 – 1656) was an important Italian composer, violinist and organist of the Baroque era.
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Michelangelo Rossi, an excellent violinist, organist, and composer, was the foremost pupil of Frescobaldi, living in Rome from about 1620 until around 1660, according to Fétis’s Biographie universelle des musiciens (1837, 1883). In 1625, Rossi presented an opera titled Erminia sul Giordano to a society of amateurs in Rome. During the prologue, he himself performed the role of Apollo, and the preface to the score notes that he produced such “sweet and mellow sounds” on his violin that it justified his triumphant arrival in a chariot with the Muses. This opera was published in Rome in 1627. Rossi also gained recognition as an organist through his collection of organ and harpsichord pieces, Intavolatura d’organo e cembalo, published in Rome in 1657.