# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francesco-corteccia
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:32:42.178Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francesco-corteccia"
name: "Francesco Corteccia"
slug: "francesco-corteccia"
description: "Francesco Corteccia 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."
tagline: "Italian composer (1502-1571)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francesco_corteccia%2C_hinnario_secondo_l'uso_della_chiesa_romana_et_fiorentina%2C_1542-44_(mp_7).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1502-07-27"
deathDate: "1571-06-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.1
  momentum:             0.4516129032258064
  historical:           9.205832000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A7"
    title: "فرانشيسكو كورتيكيا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Corteccia"
    title: "Francesco Corteccia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Corteccia"
    title: "Francesco Corteccia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Corteccia"
    title: "Francesco Corteccia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Corteccia"
    title: "Francesco Corteccia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus_Corticius"
    title: "Franciscus Corticius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Corteccia"
    title: "Francesco Corteccia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Corteccia"
    title: "Francesco Corteccia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%87%D1%87%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE"
    title: "Кортечча, Франческо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/32458263-b9b1-41c8-8c26-3a39f48c172e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1230392"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump