Agostino Agazzari worked in music at a period when the art was changing shape around them.
The record lists Agostino Agazzari as Italian composer and music theorist (1578-1640).
Agostino Agazzari was born at Siena in 1578.
Music then was written to commission, for a court, a church or a patron, and a composer's freedom was bounded by whoever paid.
He worked as composer, organist and musicologist.
The instruments recorded are organ.
A musical reputation rests on a handful of works that refuse to date.
Agostino Agazzari died in 1640, aged 62. The recordings and scores remain, which is the only durable form a musical life takes.
Achievements
- Instruments: organ
