Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lodovico Grossi da Viadana

Italian composer, teacher and Franciscan friar

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1560

Place of Birth: Viadana, Lombardy, Italy

Date of Death: 02-May-1627

Profession: composer, musicologist, music theorist

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (usually Lodovico Viadana, though his family name was Grossi; c.
1560 – 2 May 1627) was an Italian composer, teacher, and Franciscan friar of the Order of Friars Minor Observants.
He was the first significant figure to make use of the newly developed technique of figured bass, one of the musical devices which was to define the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras in music.