Paolo Virchi

Paolo Virchi (1551—2 May 1610) was an Italian composer and organist from Brescia, son of luthier Girolamo Virchi. Since 1598, he has served as a church organist in Mantua. Virchi published a book of cittern's tablature in 1574 and four volumes of madrigals between 1574 and 1591 in Venice (described by American musicologist Anthony Newcomb as equally skillful as renowned Luca Marenzio's).