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Vincenzo Galilei
Vincenzo Galilei (c. 1520–1591), Italian lutenist, composer, and music theorist, father of Galileo; theorist of the Florentine Camerata, author of the Dialogo della musica antica et della moderna (1581), and pioneer of musical experimentation against Zarlino.
William Byrd
William Byrd (c. 1540–1623), also Birde, English Renaissance composer and Chapel Royal organist; Catholic recusant under Elizabeth I, holder of the 1575 Tallis printing patent, composer of three masses, the 109-motet Gradualia, and virginal music.