Francesco Corteccia's lyrics & chords

Francesco Corteccia (July 27, 1502 – June 7, 1571) was an Italian composer, organist and teacher of the Renaissance. Not only was he one of the best known of the early composers of madrigals, and an important native Italian composer during a period of domination by composers from the Low Countries, but he was the most prominent musician in Florence for several decades during the reign of Cosimo I de' Medici. Life He was born in Florence. By 1515 he was a choirboy and was enrolled in the cathedral school; around this time he probably studied...read more