Michele Pesenti

Italian composer, priest, singer and lutenist of the Renaissance

To be distinguished from the blind keyboard composer Martino Pesenti, (Venice, c. 1600 – c. 1648)

Michele Pesenti (Verona ca. 1470–after 1524) was an Italian composer and lutenist who served the House of Este at Ferrara. Pesenti was one of the most lively and inventive of the so-called frottola composers, including Marchetto Cara and Bartolomeo Tromboncino.

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Works

Che faralla, che diralla
Dal lecto me levava
L’acqua vale al mio gran foco
Tulerunt Dominum meum