Nicola Vicentino was an Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most progressive musicians of the age, inventing, among other things, a microtonal keyboard.
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![Frontispiece in the Vicentino's treatise on music. Inscriptions: 1 (outer circle) Incerta et occulta scientiae tuae manifestasti mihi;[1] 2 (inner circle) Archicymbali divisionis chromaticique ac enarmonici generis praticae inventor;[2] 3 (under the portrait) Nicolas Vicentinus anno aetatis suae XXXXIIII[3]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Vicentino2.jpg/500px-Vicentino2.jpg)
Frontispiece in the Vicentino's treatise on music. Inscriptions: 1 (outer circle) Incerta et occulta scientiae tuae manifestasti mihi;[1] 2 (inner circle) Archicymbali divisionis chromaticique ac enarmonici generis praticae inventor;[2] 3 (under the portrait) Nicolas Vicentinus anno aetatis suae XXXXIIII[3]
Cathedral of Ferrara. Ferrara was the principal center of chromatic experimentation in the second half of the 16th century.
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About this person
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1511 to 1576 · aged 65
Written about in
18 languages
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