Lorenzo Tracetti

Lorenzino del Liuto (born as Lorenzo Tracetti) was one of the most famous and accomplished virtuosi of the lute. He lived in the second half of the sixteenth century and he must be counted among those composers who strongly influenced Italian and foreign lute literature. His music enjoyed wide contemporary fame throughout Europe, a fact to which a number of surviving sources bear witness. Anthologies of his work, issued between 1601 and 1617, were printed in various cities of Europe, from Utrecht to Cologne, Nuremberg and Strasbourg, and many of his manuscripts were collected by foreign lutenists. Many decades after his death Lorenzino's name was still widely known.