Births on August 12

Giovanni Legrenzi

Born on August 12, 1626

Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer (d. 1690)

Giovanni Legrenzi (baptized August 12, 1626 – May 27, 1690) was an Italian composer of opera, vocal and instrumental music, and organist, of the Baroque era. He was one of the most prominent composers in Venice in the late 17th century, and extremely influential in the development of late Baroque idioms across northern Italy.

References

Giovanni Legrenzi

Choose Another Date

Events on 1626

11 Feb

Afonso Mendes
Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia and Patriarch Afonso Mendes declare the primacy of the Roman See over the Ethiopian Church, and Catholicism to be the state religion of Ethiopia.