Francesco Landini

Francesco Landini
Landini wearing the corona laurea and playing an organetto, illustration from the Squarcialupi Codex, about 1410
Bornabout 1325 or about 1335
Died2 September 1397
Florence
Burial placeBasilica of San Lorenzo, Florence
NationalityFlorentine
Other names
  • Franciscus Landino
  • Magister Franciscus de Florentia
  • Magister Franciscus Coecus Horghanista de Florentia
  • Francesco degli orghani
  • Cechus de Florentia
Occupations
StyleArs nova
Detail of Landini wearing a corona laurea while playing an organetto in an illustration from the 15th-century Squarcialupi Codex I-Fl 87, f. 121v

Francesco Landini (c. 1325 or 1335 – 2 September 1397; also known by many names) was a Florentine composer, poet, organist, singer and instrument maker, and a central figure of the music of the Trecento in the Italian peninsula.


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