Evidence in some of his music also points to this: he dedicated one motet to Andrea Contarini, who was Doge of Venice from 1368 to 1382; and in addition, his works are well-represented in northern Italian sources. Francesco degli Organi, Francesco il Cieco, or Francesco da Firenze, called by later generations Francesco Landini or Landino (c. 1325 or 1335 – September 2, 1397) was an Italian composer, organist, singer, poet and instrument maker. 1325, Флоренция, по другим данным - Фьезоле - 2 сентября 1397, Флоренция) - итальянский композитор, поэт, певец и органист. Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. He helped build the organs installed in the St. Annunziata and Florence cathedrals in 1379 and 1387 respectively. Technically, he was one of 12 and a half children. The evidence linking Francesco to the Landini family via his presumed father, who was identified by Filippo Villani as a painter who lived a simple life is no longer accepted by art historians. Landini was named choirmaster at the church of St. Lorenzo in Florence in 1365, a post that he held until his death in 1397.Landini was the most popular musician in Italy in the fourteenth century, and 154 works are known to have been written by him, constituting more than a quarter of all surviving polyphonic music from the Italian trecento. Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 2006, p. 492-495, Last edited on 18 September 2020, at 14:50, Francesco Landini: Works List & Discography, International Music Score Library Project, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francesco_Landini&oldid=979059370, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 18 September 2020, at 14:50. Landini was famed for his ability on the organetto, a small portative organ that was pumped with one hand and played with the other. Landini also helped build the new organ at SS Annunziata in 1379, and in 1387 he was involved in yet another organ-building project, this time at Florence Cathedral. Around or shortly after 1375, Andreas hired him as a consultant to help build the organ at the Servite house in Florence. He most likely studied with Jacopo da Bologna and Giovanni da Cascia and was largely based in Northern Italy before 1365. Gherardello da Firenze is the earliest composer to use the cadence whose works have survived. С годами Франческо Ландини превзошёл всех своих современников - музыкантов, живших в Италии. Numerous contemporary writers attest to his fame, not only as a composer, but as a singer, poet, organist, and passionately devoted citizen of Florence. A composer and poet in the Florence of theTrecento. Landini was most likely born in Florence, though his great-nephew, humanist Cristoforo Landino, gave his birthplace as Fiesole.