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See also:GIROLAMO See also:FRESCOBALDI (1583-1644)
, See also:Italian musical composer, was See also:born in 1583 at See also:Ferrara
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Little is known of his See also:life except that he studied See also:music under Alessandro Milleville, and owed his first reputation to his beautiful See also:voice
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He was organist at St See also:Peter's in See also:Rome from x6o8 to 1628
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According to See also:Baini no less than 30,000 See also:people flocked to St Peter's on his first See also:appearance there
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On the 20th of See also:November 1628 he went to live in See also:Florence, becoming organist to the See also:duke
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