Nicola Vicentino

Frontispiece in the Vicentino's treatise on music. Inscriptions: 1 (outer circle) Incerta et occulta scientiae tuae manifestasti mihi;[1] 2 (inner circle) Archicymbali divisionis chromaticique ac enarmonici generis praticae inventor;[2] 3 (under the portrait) Nicolas Vicentinus anno aetatis suae XXXXIIII[3]

Nicola Vicentino (1511 – 1575 or 1576) was an Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most progressive musicians of the age, inventing, among other things, a microtonal keyboard.

  1. ^ A verse from Ps.50
  2. ^ Inventor of practical division of chromatic and enharmonic genus.
  3. ^ Nichola Vicentino, 44 years old.